Blog #1: PESB Standards

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After reading the PESB Standards, I was surprised at just how many standards a teacher truly has to know. I obviously knew that there are many things that a teacher has to know to be beneficial for his or her students, but I guess I never thought of how in depth the rules went. Saying that, I was happily shocked at how many of the standards that I felt comfortable with. With that however, there were also a few things that I need to look into further and/or brush up on them.  One area that scared me to see was 1.1B on semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. While I'm sure I do these things without thinking, I struggle to consider teaching a student about these subjects. I think I would need to further look into teaching subjects like these. 

 The other point that I will need to look back and think in the future on is Standard 4.B on the specific elements of Literature. I need to really think about the differing levels of knowledge from student to student. Where one student might be an expert with foreshadowing, another student might struggle. Similarly, English is a subject that incorporates other subjects (i.e. history) that many don't consider. Therefore, I will have to teach many subjects that are related to the English subject as a whole, which I know many students might struggle with. I know in high school, I loved English but struggled to understand the history that goes along with it, like I'm sure many children will also have a hard time with.

 I was pleased to see Standard 6.I. When I was in high school (even though it was only like 4 years ago), technology was available, but it is being used more in more in the classroom, which is going to be new but exciting for me. There is a lot of crap on the internet, but there is also so much beneficial information out there to help different type of students learn. There are auditory, visual, reading/writing, and kinesthetic learning styles. Having access to all the information out there and online should hopefully be able to help all the different types of students that I will endure. 
There is much to learn, but I'm excited to learn along with my future students. 

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