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INTASC Standard Description and Rationale
Standard #1: Learner Development
The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that
patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the
cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and
implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences.
Name of Artifact: Educational Autobiography
Date: September 2, 2014
Course: Education 101
Brief Description: For this assignment, I have explained how certain elements
around me have influenced my education and the future endeavors I plan to
pursue. I explain how these factors in my life are the reasons that I am who I am
today. I have had my teachers, my family and even my neighbors that have
influenced who I have become and who I want to be, they helped me discover
these parts of my life.
Rationale: I chose Standard #1, because I feel as though it displays how a
learner grows throughout their education. This paper displays how one may learn
versus how an other may learn, just like what Standard #1 is describing. Standard
#1 describes how some people development certain skills better and/or faster
than others and I think this paper is helping the writer explain what they have
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developed.
Educational Autobiography
Introduction
Children are very in)uential. When a teenager is around someone that is
younger, the younger child usually wants to do exactly as the teenager does. If a
teenager is dressing a certain way, the child wants to dress that way, if a
teenager wants cotton candy, the child is going to want cotton candy too. Children
look up to those around them. Those who are older than them but still relatable,
therefore, they are in)uencing them. I grew up in Fishers, Indiana and then moved
