New Insights and Their Implications

I would say the newest insight that I have received from this class is the knowledge on standards. I have learned about how the state standards are created, I have actually now seen the national standards I have never seen these before, I have learned of the importance of alignment with these standards in my future classroom, and I have learned how to better navigate around South Dakota State standards website.
First, learning about the process of reviewing the state standards and then every 5 years making changes to them was new knowledge for me. Second and third I will put together, sadly this is the first time I have actually seen the national mathematical standards. It was very interesting to me how they are very different than the State standards in wording and how the state standards have left some of the national standards out. By me now knowing how to get access to both standards, in my future classroom I will be able to better align my classroom curriculum. Not only meeting state standards but taking a look at the national standards and finding ways to better educate my children to a larger scale. Finally, I have been to the South Dakota State standards website many times, but I never knew of all the different things I could do there. Like accessing the blue print to the Dakota Step, and ways to unpack the standards to get a better understanding of what is expected.
Everything we have covered so far in this class I see as being something that is going to be very important to my career as a teacher. Even if we have been running out of time and not covering all the material Dr. Reins wants to. I am glad that we have gone into a lot of detail over most of this material, and not just brushing it leaving me with the sense of not gaining any knowledge.