EDUC 303 Journal 2

1.    On a personal level (for example, as a student - in my case, as a parent) how do you feel about standards?
2.  As a future teacher, how do you view content learning standards?
3.  What did you learn about deconstructing standards and how confident are you about being able to do so?
Answers:
  1. I'm not a parent, or a teacher (yet). As a student I recognize now how the common core state standards have shaped my education and I'm honestly thankful for it. I was always held to a certain standard to ensure my continued academic development. I think it's important to have such standard in order to make sure that every student is given the same opportunity for good education. Otherwise, we'd end up with students in some areas being less educated than those in others, and that can lead to issues. 
  2. As a future teacher I read these standards under the guise of "what will be expected" when I'm on the job. I'm committed to fulfilling these standards because I want all of my students to succeed and as long as I'm keeping them all up to par with the standards then I can recognize that I'm doing something right. Or the converse, if my students don't live up the standard I'll know that I'm doing something wrong. I'm honestly thankful to have something to compare myself to so I can have a frame of reference for my performance. 
  3. I've learned that standards all exist for a reason, and by extrapolating the reason for the standards and gaining a better understanding of them I can develop better and better ways to ensure the standards are met. I'm confident that I'll be able to deconstruct standards, but I'm not certain enough to say I'll be good at it. Every person is liable to misinterpreting things from time to time. My biggest worry is that at some point I'll assume the reason for a standard is different from the actual reason. With the wrong thing in mind I may skew the lesson in the wrong direction, or present it the wrong way. That would mean I'm teaching a whole class of students the right thing but in the wrong way, and that could be detrimental to their future development. I absolutely am going to need practice before I'm confident enough to put my skills to the test. 

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