Intro to Education

Throughout this semester of college, this course has been my favorite one I have taken. I have enjoyed learning and experiencing all of the aspects involved in being a teacher. After completing this course and my service learning placement, I have decided that I do want to become a teacher. I have decided that even though teaching is really hard work I want to pursue it. Some of the things that helped me decide that I want to pursue teaching are the curriculum you get to teach. and the relationships you build with students. While I was completing all of the online assignments and activities in this course, I learned a lot about what you get the opportunity to teach as a teacher. Doing the activity where we researched the standards in Utah for teaching helped me get to see how many different areas you get to teach as an elementary school teacher. I liked that I would get to teach my students math and science, but also we would get to explore social studies and literature together. I ...

I think that I have made a lot of connections between my service-learning placement and the topics that we are learning in class. As I am reflecting on my experiences, I can see how the lessons in this course are actually applicable to a classroom. I think that I have been able to articulate my own learning pretty well. I think that as I have progressed through this course my articulation has continued to improve. I do notice myself making more connections. Now when I am observing the classroom, I find myself making connections to the content. I see the activities that my teachers choose to use and I can pick out the core standards they are fulfilling. I also see how my teachers use the main techniques we have learned about to make lessons interesting. I see growth from my first blog post in the way I describe what I am seeing in the classroom. It is no longer surface level and my posts go deeper into the way the teachers actually teach. I also see growth in how I ...

I have seen evidence of standards being addressed in both my 6th grade and Kindergarten service learning placement classes. In my 6th grade class, I have seen my service learning teacher do certain science activities to fulfill sixth-grade science standards. For example, my service learning teacher had the students each research an animal and talk about where it lives, its food chain, etc. This fulfills the sixth-grade science standard of stability and change in ecosystems. The standards that I see taught to the most are probably math standards. These standards are seen in the school as some of the most important ones. The math book that the sixth-grade teachers follow also helps to ensure every one of the standards is taught. In my kindergarten service learning placement class, I also see how the teacher teaches the standards to students. Standards for kindergarten are pretty different than other classes. They are more based on developing certain sk...