Blog 4

    ELA analyzes a student's understanding and usage of the English language to determine how well someone can communicate thoughts and ideas. One standard set in place for fourth graders is that they have to be able to restate information given both visually in texts and orally. This important ability helps students later on when completing tasks such as writing essays or reports. I feel prepared to implement this standard because I have a lot of practice at paraphrasing and it can become a very useful tool.

    On CPALMS I chose the fourth grade standards toolkit. I decided to choose a visual art toolkit and picked the one about developing ideas from different resources in order to create a piece of artwork. I would use this in my classroom because it teaches kids to be original with their artwork, gets them thinking, and allows them to be as creative as they want. This is both a fun and educational learning tool because they can apply this to use their creativity in other subjects.

    It is important for teachers to be able to properly internet search because if they need to find material for class or google examples, it is helpful to be able to search fast and effectively instead of taking up class time searching for something. I think I will use advanced internet search the most since I am always on the internet or googling things for classes and research papers and I am left googling specific questions. I cannot think of an internet searching skill I use that was not mentioned. I was unaware that you could use an image to google search though, and learning about that was very interesting to me.