Journal Three
Hello again, friends! It has been another great week in my EME2040 class. Today, I'll be talking about ELA Technology Standards, the CPALMS Educator Toolkit, and the skills I picked up when I wrote my Newsletter. Get ready, I'm about to throw a lot of info at you!
So, the ELA Technology Standards tackle how teachers must incorporate technology and understanding of technology into their curriculum when it comes to teaching the English and Language Arts subjects. When I eventually end up getting my degree in Elementary Education, there are many standards which I will have to interact with. Personally, I hope to teach the younger grades, so I mainly focused on the standards created for younger elementary school classes. With that being said, I think that given my current experience within the classroom and my lack of degree in knowing how to actually teach English/Language Arts fully, I think I'm only really prepared to teach about the second grade and under. For example, in the second grade standards, one of the most promising standards that I think I would love to teach and understand is ELA Technology Standard LAFS.2.SL.1.2, which states, "Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media." Further on from second grade, teaching becomes more specific according to the standards, so I will definitely need to go through more training on those.
The CPALMS website was really cool to look at! The website holds a ton of resources that teachers can incorporate into the classroom, and it follows the Florida State Standards for each grade, to the tee! I went into the first grade section, and then went into English/Language Arts, just because I resonate with this grade and this subject the most. There was a really fun activity called "Punctuation Play," for the first grade, which deals with using periods, question marks, and exclamation marks in a fun, interactive soccer game. I chose this tool because it on track with the standards that children need to follow at that age, as well as it is a fun activity that can definitely raise interest in the subject because it is incorporated with a game that they play regularly. I also found that the tool is easy for children to use or for teachers to use as a class on the projector.
Finally, last week, we had an assignment which was meant to help us with our Microsoft Word fluency by creating a classroom newsletter! So far, this has been my favorite assignment in the class. One skill that I gained was the ability to separate text into columns. I think this was the main skill that I learned, but I know it will help me greatly in every way that I can use in Word. In addition, I already knew how to add a border to the sheet, but I haven't exercised how to do that skill since I was in like sixth grade, so it was really fun to relearn that skill. I also never really knew how to add text to a shape, and I learned how to do that with WordArt, which was very fun. Overall, I am really happy with how my newsletter turned out. It is both factual and aesthetically pleasing, especially for my first time.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. That's all I have for this week! Have a great week, fellow teachers!
So, the ELA Technology Standards tackle how teachers must incorporate technology and understanding of technology into their curriculum when it comes to teaching the English and Language Arts subjects. When I eventually end up getting my degree in Elementary Education, there are many standards which I will have to interact with. Personally, I hope to teach the younger grades, so I mainly focused on the standards created for younger elementary school classes. With that being said, I think that given my current experience within the classroom and my lack of degree in knowing how to actually teach English/Language Arts fully, I think I'm only really prepared to teach about the second grade and under. For example, in the second grade standards, one of the most promising standards that I think I would love to teach and understand is ELA Technology Standard LAFS.2.SL.1.2, which states, "Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media." Further on from second grade, teaching becomes more specific according to the standards, so I will definitely need to go through more training on those.
The CPALMS website was really cool to look at! The website holds a ton of resources that teachers can incorporate into the classroom, and it follows the Florida State Standards for each grade, to the tee! I went into the first grade section, and then went into English/Language Arts, just because I resonate with this grade and this subject the most. There was a really fun activity called "Punctuation Play," for the first grade, which deals with using periods, question marks, and exclamation marks in a fun, interactive soccer game. I chose this tool because it on track with the standards that children need to follow at that age, as well as it is a fun activity that can definitely raise interest in the subject because it is incorporated with a game that they play regularly. I also found that the tool is easy for children to use or for teachers to use as a class on the projector.
Finally, last week, we had an assignment which was meant to help us with our Microsoft Word fluency by creating a classroom newsletter! So far, this has been my favorite assignment in the class. One skill that I gained was the ability to separate text into columns. I think this was the main skill that I learned, but I know it will help me greatly in every way that I can use in Word. In addition, I already knew how to add a border to the sheet, but I haven't exercised how to do that skill since I was in like sixth grade, so it was really fun to relearn that skill. I also never really knew how to add text to a shape, and I learned how to do that with WordArt, which was very fun. Overall, I am really happy with how my newsletter turned out. It is both factual and aesthetically pleasing, especially for my first time.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. That's all I have for this week! Have a great week, fellow teachers!
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