Common Core State Standards

It is really great being able to have full access to the common core state standards. Being able to go through and read all of the standards for reading literature and what students should be able to do is vital to not only becoming but also being a teacher in general. It was especially interesting to read because it really allowed me to see all of the things my teachers in high school had skipped over or just did not include in general. There were a lot of standards that I remember doing but we would not do the entire standard or there were just some things missing from the standard in our lessons. However the article did address how the standards are relatively general and teachers are not limited to them which I thought was really interesting and informative.

I feel as though the standards are well, pretty standard. There were not really any surprises when I went through each of them. It was all pretty much what I expected and would imagine there to be for a teacher's expectations of high school students. Reading through the standards was quite exciting for me. It got me really excited to become a teacher and to begin incorporating those standards into my own lessons. The ones that really stuck out to me were the ones that involved analyzing. I am a huge fan of this and reading the requirements for it and the different ways students are supposed to be able to analyze is really cool.

Not only were the standards intriguing to me but the article was as well. I especially found the section called “A Literacy Practices Approach” to be incredibly informative. I will most definitely have to keep this article to continue to refer back to as I progress into a teacher and even afterwards. I am really glad this was an assignment because I definitely learned a lot from it and it has me really excited to further my teaching journey.