I completed these courses while in MSU's Fifth Year Internship Program.  These courses allowed me to specifically focus on literacy, science, social studies, and mathematics lesson planning and student learning to ensure that all lessons include particular components to be most beneficial to students' learning. I learned how to use classroom resources such as textbooks and curriculums as tools to plan lessons instead of using the curriculum as the lesson itself. I learned numerous methods and things to consider, such as students' backgrounds, to plan meaningful lessons as well.  Besides taking these courses, I had a field placement in a first grade classroom at Gompers Elementary, a Detroit Public School. The experience as a whole allowed me to put into place many of the strategies I learned as an undergraduate student and built on my educational background. I was able to become a better well-rounded educator.  I was also able to further my learning to build a stronger foundation to be a successful teacher in urban education. While taking these courses, I spent time with other interns, my mentor teachers, professors, and field instructor discussing and reflecting on different practices, strategies, challenges, and solutions to use in the classroom to create a learning environment for students to be successful. By having a yearlong internship, there were mistakes that I was able to make and reflect on with my professors and mentor teachers. Because I made these mistakes during the internship, I was able to learn from my mistakes and misconceptions. I made adjustments and learned from these experiences. I was able to avoid making these same errors in my own classroom during my first year of teaching.