001 Your Approach to Teaching Your Standards
Welcome to the All Star Planning Podcast! In our first episode, I\u2019m talking about your approach to your standards.\xa0 Every teacher deals with their standards differently.\xa0 I started out really stressed and overwhelmed by my standards.\xa0 I felt like I didn\u2019t know how to read my standards.\xa0 Nobody ever taught me! All of the codes were confusing! Science standards, chemistry standards, interdisciplinary standards - I couldn\u2019t keep up!
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Because my student teaching experience was in a great school I simply copied what I learned when I had my own classroom.\xa0 I was teaching in a school, essentially by myself.\xa0 I was the only chemistry teacher there, so I couldn\u2019t bounce ideas off of anybody.\xa0 It eventually caught up with me.\xa0 When I felt like I was drowning in my lesson plans I decided to go back to the basics and take a really hard look at my standards.\xa0 In a moment of frustration, I took a scissor to my standards and chopped them up into what felt like a million pieces.\xa0
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And that crazed moment gave me SO much clarity.\xa0 I looked at my standards as a giant to do list. \xa0 My standards became my goal, and in that my friends!\xa0 I learned to love my standards once I rearranged them and made them my own.\xa0
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Having a handle on my standards started to make my lesson planning so much easier!
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