Madison Noorda EDEL 1010

One of my favorite things about the service learning assignment was making connections between what I was observing and what I was learning. One of my favorite things we learning about in this course was how to engage students. I did most of my service learning in a first grade classroom, and first grade students need a lot of engaging! It was fun to see the different ways to engage learners that we talked about in class, in my service learning! I especially liked talking about how technology can help engage students, because I see technology used in the classroom all the time!   I think blogging has really helped me articulate what I learned from my service learning. Sometimes it is hard for me to get all my ideas down on paper because I can’t write as fast as my brain thinks! So sometimes I lose ideas in my head while I am writing down other ideas. But blogging has helped me get all my ideas down before I forget them.   Blogging has also helped me think deeper about...

In my service learning classroom, I usually go about the same time a couple of days a week. Because of this, I usually only see math being taught. So I can't tell you for sure if there are certain standards that have more emphasis put on them than others. However, I can assume that there is a big emphasis on math because it is taught every day and by looking at their schedule, I do not think some of the other subjects are taught every day. I think this is because math is one of the more important subjects. You will continue to build on what you learn in math for the rest of your life. What I can tell you is how the math being taught in this classroom relates to the core standards. The first grade math standards are a lot about problem solving, adding and subtracting numbers less than 20, and looking for patterns and structure. I see these standards happening all the time. The students do math worksheets every day that require them to add and take away by using different methods suc...