Welcome to the All Star Planning Podcast! In our first episode, I’m talking about your approach to your standards.  Every teacher deals with their standards differently.  I started out really stressed and overwhelmed by my standards.  I felt like I didn’t know how to read my standards.  Nobody ever taught me! All of the codes were confusing! Science standards, chemistry standards, interdisciplinary standards - I couldn’t keep up!

 

Because my student teaching experience was in a great school I simply copied what I learned when I had my own classroom.  I was teaching in a school, essentially by myself.  I was the only chemistry teacher there, so I couldn’t bounce ideas off of anybody.  It eventually caught up with me.  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.  In a moment of frustration, I took a scissor to my standards and chopped them up into what felt like a million pieces. 

 

And that crazed moment gave me SO much clarity.  I looked at my standards as a giant to do list.   My standards became my goal, and in that my friends!  I learned to love my standards once I rearranged them and made them my own. 

 

Having a handle on my standards started to make my lesson planning so much easier!

 

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