Common Core in Action: How Two Science Teachers are Implementing Common Core

     This author starts this article by talking about how math and English teachers are more directly tied to the Common Core State Standards. They state that teachers in fields other than these are not as familiar with the CCSS. The author gives us one example of a science teacher who is putting the CCSS in her classroom. This science teacher implements several reading and writing standards within her science lesson about Biofuels vs. Fossil Fuels. She gives specific examples of how she does this. The author then tells us of another teacher that uses almost the same ideas for his science lesson on Nuclear Power vs. Fossil Fuels. Both of these teachers then give advice on how to get started on implementing CCSS within your lessons and classroom.
     I really enjoyed this article from hearing that even teachers that do not have much ground within the CCSS, coming up with such great ideas to incorporate them within their lessons. I am a special education major so there are also no standards for my group of students, so I wondered how I would go about my teaching, and these examples really helped me realize that there is not much difference in the teaching, just thinking of different ways to incorporate standards that the students will be learning in other classrooms, within your lesson as well. I love hearing examples of teachers like the ones in this article. Not because they have come up with some great idea that no one else has ever thought of, but that they are not only thinking of the subject they are teaching to their students, but about the students' learning and accomplishments as a whole.