Week 2 January 15 2020

While reading over the English Language Arts Common Core Standards I found that many things they hope to incorporate and enforce are things that all teachers really need to use regardless of subject. Science, history, art, and other subjects all need to learn how to speak and listen within a classroom, because collaboration is a must have in an education system. These Common Core standards also help teachers that end up teaching a subject they have not studied in. At least in my public school experience, coming from a small school with little resources, my high school often had the music teacher teach a few history classes, or a prior communications major teach History or English. It is not ideal for this to happen if these teachers have done very little within the content area, because they do not have the off hand knowledge in class. These standards help teachers get to this point and gives them the tools to use to be effective in their classrooms regardless of content area background.
I thought that the information about the ACT was interesting because it reminded me of my personal experience with the ACT. As a Senior in high school that was also in college, with a 3.7 GPA, I was a fairly advanced student, yet I did not recognize half of the content that was on the ACT. At the time I was angry that a test the we have to take to go to college and get scholarships was so different than the education that I had been given. I still believe that our education system does not do enough to help the futures of our students when it comes to standardized testing (if there should be testing at all).  This is something that has yet to be solved, but I think this is something that affects SO many students when it comes to their futures.

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