Tuesday, February 2, 2016
standards oh my!
It is definitely beginning to hit me that these standards are not going anywhere. They are going to pretty much become my life and haunt my dreams. I am joking about that last part, but in all seriousness the NCTCS are super important. Today in class I felt like a had a bit of a breakthrough, when looking up the reading/writing standards to research strategies for these I found myself succeeding at knowing the NCTCS. To fellow peers who have been dealing with these for a couple semesters you might be thinking "how do you not know these?" or "help me???." All I know is coming from my background, music students never deal with the NCTCS so having just now learning about these I feel proud of myself. While I look at the NCTCS I have determined that the standard I personally connect with the most is standard #3- Teachers know the content they teach. I love music. It has always been my entire life. In saying this I am very confident in my ability to know music. However; I want to apply this standard a bit farther in saying "yes I do my content , but I do not want to stop learning about my content." I strongly believe in "know the content they teach" should also have underlined meanings of "continue to learn about your content". My belief is strong in this because there are always new breakthroughs and you will never know everything there is to know about your content. With saying this, can we fully reach the standard #3? This is why I want to say "teachers strive to continue the knowledge of their content they teach."
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Katie, I am glad that you are confident in discovering the standards and creating approaches to implement them. Thank you for helping me understand it more clearly today at lunch!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am glad that you brought up the point that teachers will always be learners. This is a very true argument. We will (hopefully) all continue to want to learn. I am sure that once we have a classroom, we will understand just how much we need to learn. We must learn new methods of teaching, new ways to assess, etc. In doing these things, we will undoubtedly discover new things about music! It is an exciting thing to think about-that we will continuously be learning and discovering things about a subject that is so awesome and that we love so much!
"Teachers strive to continue their knowledge of the content they teach." I wholeheartedly agree with that statement, and I couldn't have said it better myself.
ReplyDeleteI totally understand your grief when it comes to the NCTCS. Coming into this class, I couldn't recite a single one, yet alone understand them. However, the further we delve into this class, the more I find myself understanding what they mean and how to achieve them. Having not been taught these before is a huge bummer, sure, but I'm sure us music majors will show the rest of the class how we can excel in these standards.
Katie I have to say that I pretty much agreed with everything that you said, especially when it came to never really having to deal with the NCTCS standards that much, let alone with the kind of depth that we have to use this semester. I think that between Dr. Clark and each other that we can leave this class having a much better understanding of them. I guess that's where the continued learning comes in.
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