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I found it really helpful to gain understanding about how many different aspects of learning there are to focus on. From this article, I learned that learning is so diverse and can look different for everyone. It is not my job as a teacher to try and squeeze everyone into a one-size-fits-all type of environment, but rather to meet students where they are and to provide lots of options for them. When I teach I am going to apply this by giving them more than one option to learn a concept (such as read an article or watch a video), or submitting reflections.

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This article taught me about what intrinsic motivation is, and how it ignited creativity in students. I learned about the importance of giving students the freedom to choose topics that feel relevant to them. In the classroom I want to create art projects that open up questions that can help students explore their own identity. I also want to make sure to include lots of diverse examples to that students feel like they have options for how to express their personal interests.

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When is Creativity_ Intrinsic Motivation and Autonomy in Children s Artmaking.pdf

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This is a topic that is important to me, and this document helped me understand specific things that I can do in the classroom to be more inclusive. This helped me develop specific things that I want to implement when I have my own classroom. Some of them include: having a visible pride flag somewhere, having my pronouns visible with my name, asking students how they prefer to identity, and including examples of LGBTQIA artists in our lessons.

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I thought this article was really valuable for me to keep because I love the idea of students being in charge of their own learning. This is something that I currently apply to my students as a yoga teacher, but this helped me understand what it looks like in a classroom. I think this is important because it helps create more independent learners. I also think it's valuable for students to experiment with how they learn, so by the time they are done with high school they know how they learn best, and are efficient at being in charge of their own learning. I am going to take time in my class to give them their own goals, and to follow up with them one-on-one during open artmaking time. I will just act as a facilitator for their own projects since they will all be a little different.

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This is one of the most important documents that I have read about what I want my classroom to be like. This completely shifted my perspective of what the purpose of education is. To paraphrase my favorite part, Meier says that the classroom is a model for what type of citizens we want to build in the future. With this in mind, I want my students to understand that their voice matters in the classroom, and what they say and do can have an influence over what happens in our class. This is the article that inspired me to want to use class critiques to help students understand how to give and receive feedback, as well as learn how to work with peers that do not agree with everything you believe.

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This was really informational and helped me understand something I really struggled with when I would try to build lesson plans. This gave me very specific definitions and examples of how to engage learners in the content. This is going to affect my teaching because I am going to try and eliminate short answer questions from my teaching (both written and verbal) so that I can help students engage more in their learning. I think that having essential questions will also help my students with their own metacognition and identity work.

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Essential Questions (McTighe and Wiggins, 2013).pdf

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I loved the perspective of this teacher, and learned a lot about how to empower learners in the classroom. This tells a story of a teacher who was in charge of a group of "problem" students, and went out of his way to create a curriculum that would help them flourish. This was impactful to me because I had a fear in the past about giving students "too much" freedom. This helped change my perspective about how students can be much more engaged when they are in charge of their own learning, and when they help each other learn. This article has given me the inspiration to ask students more about their experiences, and not be afraid to ask them for help.

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Empowering Stereotyped Readers through Self Directed Learening

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This article was really impactful for me, because I have made a goal this year about how to fight against systematic racism within education. This article was written by a black teacher who writes about his experiences teaching to students of color. I learned that many of us have been raised to be fearful of people who have been raised in hard circumstances, because they are perceived to be more threatening. In this article, Edmin talks about the importance of dismantling the fear we may have towards some group of kids. In his experience, he began his career by being very cold with them, but eventually he learned that these students need us to we warm and loving with them. This is going to impact my teaching by taking care to smile, be kind, and even vulnerable with my students. Especially if I ever find myself teaching in a school that has a lot of kids from a hard part of town.

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Even though this was just an assignment, I learned a lot about how contextual factors influence how a students learns, and how they are motivated. I want to keep this on hand and even fill it out with my own students so I analyze how I can better help them learn. If i do not know very much about a student, this will also serve as a reminder of what things to look for that can help me teach them.

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This article really impacted me as an educator because as a yoga teacher, I think mindfulness is incredibly important. This was really helpful for me to know how to implement mindfulness and meditation into the art room specifically. I plan on having small exercises before we make art that help students be more aware of how they are feeling, and how to identify emotions.