Professional Educator Standards and Common Core Standards

I am pretty familiar with the Common Core Standards as they have been talked about in some of my previous classes. In fact, for one of my education classes I had to create a lesson plan based on one of the standards. I can't remember what specific standard it was, but it was for 7th grade Reading and Literature. It is interesting to see all the different standards for different grades and to think about how I, as a teacher, will be able to help my future students meet those standards. Although, I had never looked into the development of the Common Core Standards so It was interesting to read about how they started. It is nice to see that they were created based upon experience and feedback from the public, which makes them pretty fair.
Unlike the Common Core Standards, I was not familiar with the WA Professional Educator Standards Board. I had never read them so it was interesting to see what skills are really necessary to be qualified for the work. The standards "1.C Understand the fundamentals of first and second language acquisition and development and that the linguistic/rhetorical patterns of other languages affect the written and oral expression of diverse learners" and "1.D Understand diversity in language use, e.g., grammar, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, gender, and social roles," caught my eye because I think they are super important, as they all are. Spanish was my first language so I can understand having difficulty comprehending the different patterns between Spanish and English. I feel like I can confidently say that I have acquired most of these skills, but I do need to work on some. For example, the evolution of English is something that I think I need to work on.

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