New Insights and Implications

The first few weeks of class have been very useful. In the future, we are going to need to be able to align state and national standards to make sure that we are teaching our students the correct material, not only in math, but in other content areas as well. It had never occurred to me that the state and national standards didn’t exactly match up. I guess I had always assumed that they were similar enough to be interchangeable, but it turns out I was wrong. This class has taught me that you have to look for the similarities between state and national standards and to try to line them up according to how they are explained. I also learned that the South Dakota Content Standards website has unpacked standards, which have helpful activities for teaching specific standards.