An Overview of Core Knowledge

Audience

Instructional personnel, administrators, parents, community members, district-level staff, board members

Length

Two hours

Prerequisites

None (this Overview is a prerequisite to all other training modules)

Objectives

Participants will be able to answer the following questions:

• What is Core Knowledge?
• Why is Core Knowledge important?
• How is Core Knowledge taught?
• Where do I start with my implementation?

Summary

The Core Knowledge Sequence wields the power of an overlooked fact—that knowledge is based on prior knowledge. Furthermore, it enables vocabulary development, language proficiency, critical thinking, problem solving, and many other cognitive processes that form the heart of education. For students to learn content, they must access, reframe, and altogether arrange what they knew before that time. Prior knowledge is too often assumed, in speaking and listening, as well as reading and writing. As a response, the Sequence provides a coherent, cumulative, and content-specific curriculum that opens the doors of excellent background knowledge to all children of all backgrounds. From this solid base, students are able to access more, read more, and understand more about the world around them. The Sequence is not a curriculum-in-a-box.  Instead, through professional development, the Core Knowledge Foundation trains teachers to create coherent Curriculum Plans and Domain Maps guiding teacher creation of rich lesson plans and units that promote domain immersion and align with the content of the Sequence and the Common Core State Standards.

Registration

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For addtional details, please contact the Professional Development Coordinator via email, professionaldevelopment@coreknowledge.org, or by calling (434) 220-3352.