Professional Educator Standards Board Competencies and Common Core State Standards

    Starting the discussion by writing about the Professional Educator Standards Board Competencies, I have a few concerns that I found while reading through them. Even though I just took linguistics last quarter, I know that I need to start this quarter off by reviewing all of the vocabulary words. I understand what syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology are, I sometimes get different definitions of them mixed up with others. Beyond that, I feel as though more preparation should have been done in high school, or required in a college class, for understanding root words. This may have been because I chose to do Running Start, but I have had no classes that practice root words, or how to understand where a word was originated. This is not a good thing because I have been practicing for the NES and know that is part of it. I want to make sure that in the future, for both students in high schools/college and those studying to be a teacher, understand these sort of things when studying their language. 
     Continuing on to talk more about the Professional Educator Standards Board Competencies, I find that most of the content listed after section one, which I previously discussed, is very straight forward and taught very well in schools. My idea for teaching subjects such as writing is to act out plays, or have the students act them out, make sure the students are listening and speaking, making sure both the students are reading aloud and being read aloud to, and making sure they understand there are many different ways to not just write a paper, but many different ways to brainstorm a paper. However, section 7, which calls more to the grammar side of English, can be challenging to teach, especially spelling. It is my belief that students who spend a lot more time typing, both on computers and phones, have a difficult time spelling words. I know this is true even for myself, if I am not actively focusing on spelling and handwriting my work, my spelling tends to fall short of what it used to be when I had to memorize a bunch of words and did not have the chance to instantly look them up on a phone or computer. What this means for my classroom is that I am going to have to make sure that before I start teaching I have researched and found different ways to teach students grammar. 
     After reading some of the Common Core State Standards Facts and Myths, I thought that it was super important that it specified that it helped the teachers know what the students needed to learn, but did not tell them to teach it. I have spoken with many teachers who claim they do not agree with the Common Core State Standards, and believe that it forces them to teach without creativity and hand out a lot more worksheets. I am not sure if this is true, and it really sounds like it is not, and the site claims it is not, I feel like I need to hear more things from different people rather than just the people I know who are finding themselves many years into teaching who do not like the changes that are being made. I do believe, after reading more of these facts and myths, that there is possibility to still teach students in a fun, energetic and creative environment. 

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