Unit 1 Blog Post

As a student, I feel that standards can be helpful as they are meant to guide how teachers construct their curriculum and set goals that students should meet in the classroom. At the same time, I feel that standards can present challenges for students because not every K-12 aged student in the same class learns the same way. If a standard is presented to a teacher and they know that they need to lead their students to this certain goal, the way they go about teaching the lessons for the goal may not be beneficial for every student. Learning styles come into play here as a huge part of how every student understands the concepts that make up the standards. As a future teacher, I know that the common core standards will affect the material that I teach in my classroom. Knowing this, I will have to make it a priority to make my lesson plans very diverse to ensure that my students who have different learning styles can connect to the material. My goal will be to help every student ...

As a learner, I notice that I thrive when I can create or am given an outline/schedule to follow as I complete my assignments throughout a course. I enjoy being organized as I often can get overwhelmed if my work is not in order before me, and this can cause me to procrastinate. I believe that a few great teachers from my primary school years have impacted my life as a learner. In primary school, I had a few teachers who focused on what it meant to be a self-aware learner and learning how to recognize my own strengths in order to build on areas that I felt underdeveloped in. I got a score of 24 on the mindset quiz, which stated that I possessed a strong growth mindset. I believe that the connection between my mindset and my learning experience is very strong due to the fact that my growth mindset has always allowed me to view all of my experiences in learning as positive. I found that receiving feedback allowed me to learn new things about my own learning process and how to make...