Noteblog 1: Goals for my Learning Throughout the Course

In the syllabus, there are three main goals for the literacy component of TE 401. In this day and age, the requirements for becoming a teacher are much more rigorous than in previous years. To be a good teacher who makes learning fun for students, I feel I have many goals to achieve. I believe that it is very important to have a solid idea of the standards which I have and would like to relay in my classroom. In our society, technology plays a huge role in the lives of people of all ages. This is why I believe that it is very important for technology to be used not only by teachers, but also by students in the classroom. Through this course, I would like to be able to have an understanding of the Grade Level Content Expectations in Michigan and to incorporate different technologies to fulfill these expectations in my future classroom. Over the summer, I took an online course about integrating technology into the classroom and I was able to learn different techniques that make teaching fun for me and learning exciting for students of all ages. At MSU, there has always been emphasis placed on diversity and being able to teach to diverse learners. This is something which is very important as our society continues to enlarge it's "melting pot" mentality. I hope that this class will better enable me to teach diverse learners and to use technology to do so. I have already begun to develop a pedagogy and I have the goal that through this class I will learn what I need to do to fulfill the teach philosophy which I have begun to invision. I would like to be able to learn how to alter my pedagogy so that it will be useful to all learners and to be able to assess my learning and my beliefs so that I will be able to run a successful and fun classroom in the future.

Noteblog 1-Goals for the course

Katie Kutney

I have many goals for the language arts component of this class. I am not as familiar as I want to be with the subject specific standards for elementary education. I hope to know them and use them more after this class. I have always been a little bit old fashioned when it come to technology. I usually think that the old methods work just fine because I am not very good at computers. I hope that the experience we will have in this class with technology will help to change my current viewpoints of the importance of technology in the classroom. I hope that by experimenting with it and using lessons and methods in technology that work and are easy to use; I will be much more comfortable with it in my future classroom. Through my previous TE classes I have started to develop my opinion on how I want to run my classroom and what things I believe in strongly. My goal by the end of this class is to have a well developed pedagogy. I think it is important to have strong feelings for the methods that you use in your classroom and why you use them. I hope this course will give me more insight into successful ways to manage the learning of my students. One thing I hope to learn from this course is how to make a thorough lesson plan that covers everything. I am an organized person and I know that lesson planning will be important for me but I need to know what the best method for creating a lesson plan is. I have always thought that I knew myself as a learner but I hope that focusing on this topic throughout the course will help me further understand how I learn best. I also want to learn the types of learners so that I can better understand the wide variety of students I will have in my future classrooms. These are some of my goals for this TE class. I hope that I can meet them all by the end of the semester.