EDUC 303 Blog

What growth did you experience as a future teacher this week? This week as a future teacher I experienced a lot of growth with the material that we were given in this course specifically. Going through the lecture for this unit I learned a lot about assessments that I was not aware of before. I learned about the different types of assessments as well as informal anf formal examples of both. These examples and having this knowledge will help me immensily as a future teacher. What challenges are you facing in your growth as a future teacher? As a future teacher some challenges i am currently facing would be around online learning. All of my professors are doing a great job with the online format but it still is not the same as being in the classroom. I definatly miss being in person and being able to collabaorte with my peers more and do more hands on learning. I am also sad that we are not placed into classrooms right now but am hopeful we will get there soon!

I believe that my understanding of assessment is growing more and more every week in this course. Before this class I did not know much about assessments, I knew there were assessments such as the SAT, WASAL and then in class assessments but I did not know very much more than that. Throughout the past few weeks I have learned what makes an assessment validity, reliability and biases in assessments. This week specifically made me think back to assessments that I have had during my schooling and what some of my teachers did that ended up making those assessments invalid and biased. I have also learned a lot about how to give assessments and what types of information should be included throughout my different classroom assessments. The information that I have learned about assessment so far is going to be incredibly helpful as a future educator. Assessments are a big part of teaching and I am going to need to know what I should or should not do in terms of assessment to mak...

                                                I personally feel like I grew as a teacher a ton this week, even though there were not a lot of assignments this week I felt like I learned a ton about lesson plans and what to do to create a successful one. Before looking into the module I was very stressed out and intimidated when I thought about writing lesson plans. I had understood a few bits and pieces that we had gone over in other classes but I had not yet wrote out a whole lesson plan. This module helped me understand in a lot more detail what I was supposed to do. The lectures and videos gave a ton of great information that really helped me complete my lesson plan with much less confusion.      One major goal I have when it comes to lesson plans is that by the end of the program I have a much easier time coming up with ide...

    As a student I have mixed emotions about standards. All throughout school especially middle school and high school I remember learning specific subjects or lessons that I could not see why we needed to learn them. One example that comes to my mind was middle school and high school math. I remember learning some super complex lessons in math such as the quadratic formula or certain aspects of my algebra classes that I new I was not going to use but had to spend a ton of time learning. When I asked my math teacher one year why we had to learn that he just said because we had to and he even knew we wouldn't use it in the future. So in that aspect as a student I sometimes saw standards as pointless.      As a future teacher and after learning more I do think that standards are still important. Specifically content learning standards I think are important and helpful as a teacher to help guide you. They are not necessarily there to tell you every single lesson yo...