Welcome to my website about Common Core and the resources or lack of resources teachers have recieved! My name is Micaela Mason. I am a student at Santa Clara University majoring in child studies with an emphasis on pre-teaching. I am taking a Child Studies course called Information Literacy which teaches us the best ways to conduct research and write a well-round research paper. I decided to focus on Common Core and the resources teachers have or have not been given to support them with Common Core. My younger siblings are both being taught Common Core; I have began to notice that their Common Core homework is their hardest and most time consuming homework because they do not understand the new curriculum and my parents do not understand it so they are unable to help them. I am also aware of the challenges teachers face with the implementation of Common Core. My grandmother is a first grade teacher in a school that recently implemented Common Core. She has struggled to understand the new curriculum and has received little support and training from her school. I began to question how schools expected teachers to transfer to Common Core if schools were not going to support or offer training for teachers since the curriculum is very different from previous state standards. This curiosity led me to me research question and essay which you can find under the essay tab.
