Blog Journal #4

 

    The grade level I have selected is 4th grade! I chose this grade level because I remember being in fourth grade very vividly and how much I learned during this time in my life. The standard I chose to talk about is LAFS.4.RI.3.7. This standard has to do with English language arts. The learning tools that are set forth in this standard is how to understand information given orally, visually, or in quantitative terms. When talking about quantitative, it means if information in class is taught using charts, diagrams, animations, or even Web pages. Based on my current skill set so far, I do believe I could be successful in teaching students in this type of way. I believe if I was a teacher right now, I could teach my students using visually appealing notes or power points, incorporate charts, lists, and animations, and speak in a way that they understand. The reason I am so confident that I could do this is because I did struggle at times in elementary school with learning, and what helped me the most was seeing the information put in diagrams or charts. Even to this day, it still helps me to learn like that. Seeing information in a more visually appealing way can make a world of a difference, even if it does not seem like much! 

    For the next portion of this assignment, I went along with the same theme and still chose 4th grade English Language Arts! I decided to choose standard LAFS.4.RI.1.1. This standard goes into depth about how students can better understand examples and specific details in their texts and then using that information to explain what it says specifically. It also will help the student draw up conclusions, inferences, and ideas from the text. I would use this in my classroom because, once again, when I was in elementary school, I could read super fast, but when it came to explaining what I just read, I was oftentimes blank with what I had read. I think this standard will be super important in the classroom in really helping the student read, process, and get the full idea of what they just learned about in their texts. 

    You can truly get lost on the internet; search up one thing about the temperature you cook cookies at and three hours later you are on Pinterest making a board of all these recipes you want to make. When it comes to being a teacher, the Internet is crucial. You need to be proficient on the Internet as a teacher because of the world we live in now, everything involves technology. For a normal person, the Internet is important to look up recipes or directions or find a friend on Facebook, but for teachers it is how you make your curriculum, stay in contact with parents, post to your class blog so the students stay up to date, and so much more. With the skills introduced this week, I think two that will be most useful moving forward would be searching with a picture from a website because I honestly did not know you could do that from an actual picture on a specific website. The other skill I was not aware of that I think will be super helpful in the future is excluding words from my search using the -. I did not know you could do that and I think it is a great tool that I will be using from now on. Learning about internet searching this week has opened up my eyes to new ways of surfing the web!