EDUC 400 Journal - Week Four:* When reading the book chapter, what attitudes and skills of a responsive teacher resonated with you? * What do you feel are the important aspects to consider when writing learning objectives? * What has been enlightening to you so far in this course?

The attitudes and skills that resonated most with me were to accept responsibility for learner success and to build awareness of what works for each learner. As a tutor, I already feel extremely responsible for each student that I give help to; if he or she didn't improve or at least learn something from our time together, I feel that I didn't do my job. Also, I think we should all take time to get to know our students' learning styles and try to incorporate that into our tutoring to make them feel comfortable and noticed so that they can learn.
I think that an educator should take learning styles, abilities, CSOs, the literature, and time into consideration when making learning objectives.
I feel that the most enlightening activity during this class has been the procedure to make learning objectives and the many factors one should take into consideration.

Though looking through the many CSOs for each subject is quite daunting, especially for social studies classes, it does make the many things to teacher seem more doable. In addition, I think that learning objectives should be made to hold the highest expectations for the students rather than to make objectives that can easily be met by all students.

How important are the curriculum standards and learning objectives to lesson plans? Is the required textbook an influence on your lessons? Is it alright to teach topics that do not fit into the CSOs simply to engage the students? What else should I take into consideration when making learning objectives?