After reading over the syllabus thoroughly after skimming through the pages with the class. I have thought about my goals for this semester and what I want to learn in this course. Though there are many things I want to learn, I want to focus one these three things the most, the rest will incorporate themselves in at the right time.
1. I want to learn effective and creative ways to teach and integrate language arts in the classroom. I want to learn both in class and in feild placement, to get a variety of many different ideas in teaching chidren the aspects of literacy.
2. I want to get the experience to work with a vareity of students, particularly my three focal students to learn their style and understanding of literacy and what ways they learn the best.
3. In TE 401 we did many projects and lesson plans that consisted of standards. Through the process of writing many detailed lesson plans, I learned that there is a great amount of thought that gets put into creating lesson plans, because of the amount of standards teachers need to incorporate into their lessons. As one of my goals, i want to learn more about standards and particularly language arts standards for all grades, especially fifth grade. I feel this would help me understand lessons taught in my placement. Standards are somewhat confusing in many aspects, so I want to get more aquainted to my standards theough this course.
I am looking foward to this semester. I feel that there is so much to learn about literacy and language arts. I am excited to see what this semester becomes.
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Response 1-- Due 1/27
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through your goals I can definitely relate to your concern about incorporating standards into lesson plans. That is one of my uncertainties as well. I am afraid that I will incorporate too many standards in one lesson; therefore, overwhelming the students. Yet, I am also afraid of not incorporating enough standards into the lesson. I think that this class will help us discover ways to incorporate the appropriate amount of standards. The more lesson plans we write will also help us to understand how to incorporate the standards.
Hopefully the three of us can read over each others lesson plans to offer ideas on appropriate standards to include. I think by working together we will be able to discuss our decisions as to which standards to center the lesson around.