By using state and Common Core standards, teachers can then create objectives for each individual lesson based on their unique curriculum and knowledge of their students’ capabilities.

"When a student does a lesson plan, one of the first questions is: What Common Core standards are you addressing?" said Sharon Harris-Ewing, chair of the department of teacher education at Roberts ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

Pedagogically, the common-core standards are already akin to gifted education but teachers will still need guidance on how to differentiate them for the most able learners.

Green, who has been working with teachers to prepare for Common Core since the state adopted it three years ago, said her staff is integrating the standards into the curriculum.

Think of it as America's first national lesson plan -- coming soon to a public school near you. Lessons based on the nation's new Common Core standards are being taught in Long Island's classrooms ...

Here's an important thing to understand about the Common Core Standards--nobody is in charge of them.

Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers ...

The Common Core standards are math and English benchmarks describing what students should know after completing each grade. They were developed by states to allow comparison of students ...

Here's the thing: The Common Core standards don't specify the use of curricula, textbooks, workbooks or lesson plans — let alone particular math problems. (See #6, below). But in order to teach ...