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The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instruction Grades 6-12 - Blog Post #3

This chapter touched on a few things that I've thought about before. Whenever I think ahead about becoming a teacher I always wonder how I'm going to make lesson plans that will get my students up to those state standards. But the section that really interested my most from the chapter was the influence of economic inequalities. As someone who has struggled to a certain extent with being poor and being of color, I'm not surprised that economic inequality can and does affect student performance. Student performance depends on many things including things that as teachers one can't really change like how much funding a school gets. The chapter talked about how lack of resources in the school, of course, leads to low performance which leads to greater things related to employment, housing, and healthcare. I feel this is something that we as teachers can't change, but we need to keep in mind and still have expectations that students can get to those state standards.

Also something that I have thought about when creating lesson plans was to implement social media or the use of technology in the classroom to teach students the skills they are going to need in the 21st century. Things like learning how to effectively research online will also be useful for students, and that is something that as a teacher I have to think about along with making sure I'm helping them meet those state standards. This would also include having students gain critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills. The chapter states that only about 16 states have implanted this sort of framework into their state standards, but as a teacher I think it's useful to keep in mind that these skills are things that students today will need for when they graduate. Overall the chapter was interesting.

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