Essay On Personal Reflection

While I appreciated that one of my peers provided feedback on my work, I feel that the feedback that was provided did not fulfill the assignment. My peer did not provide detailed feedback on my paper that could be adequately incorporated in my review and revisions. Most of the information that was provided as feedback were simply statements that reiterated what the prompt question was. Please see the below feedback provided to me by my peer.

The areas of productiveness in this session for me included the paraphrasing and minimal encouragers. Throughout this session I felt that my paraphrasing was clear and concise. It allowed the client to think about what he had said, while being able to provide me with feedback and allowed for the conversation to flow naturally.

I feel strongly and I am convince that the fact that I had a headache and blocked sinuses affected my learning during the course time.

| |the intellectual conversation of topics that were discussed. I also enjoyed the learning |

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

Writing provides an outlet for careful thought and expression. Ever since I was young, I have always been exposed to the world of reading and writing. I started of creating stories about my friends and our imaginary adventures and now I am analyzing the effects of discrimination to the American Dream. Writing allows you to go places and consider circumstances that you may not have otherwise done. For me, I had the opportunity to grow up in a house that loved the art and beauty that came from a good book or written piece. My dad a history teacher turned librarian would always bring home books that he thought would peak our literary interest while my very English mother always enjoyed reading a good Jane Austin with some tea every chance she was given. I will have to admit, reading was always my favorite part about English. However, in my later years I have come to appreciate the art that goes into a written piece. The sitting and tapping of pens or feet as you wait for a point to form in your head that will catapult your mind over any writer’s block. The feeling when you have finished a piece and you are satisfied with it has always brought me joy.

The main goals for this project, as I said in my email last year, were to improve my work ethic, and create something I was proud of. I believe I accomplished both of those things, but first I will discuss the things that I would have done differently. Most importantly I would have captured more emotion in my photos. Not just more photos, but a wider range of emotions. I did capture some other emotions, but I had a lot fewer shots of them and therefore even fewer made it into the final project. I think that Braden purposefully wore a hat when I was taking photos of him, but I didn’t notice until it was too late. I would have worked harder to make him comfortable without it, but it took me too long to realize. I think I captured the main mood of what he does which is a sort of peaceful kind of work. He really seems in bliss when playing guitar and I was really able to capture that with the images I already took. As I continue to photograph Braden I will try to get more images depicting sadness, happiness, frustration, etc. I also wish I had more time with Braden. I took very opportunity that I had to take photos of him, and I shot at many different locations, but I am looking forward to photographing him during the school year when he is not gone with his family so much. This way I will have opportunities to photograph him in even more environments and doing more than just playing guitar. I will focus a little less on composition and more on the story, emotion, etc. I think

The age 19 is a very strange time in my life. Technically, I am considered an adult, but in reality it is more of an awkward middle ground between teen hood and being a real life adult. Not yet feeling the full effect of 20 and the responsibilities that follow have not sunk in yet. Everyone around me says “live it up it’s our last year to be ignorant!”, and being in college it seems like all that matters is who can shotgun a beer the fastest at a party or how many people someone slept with. There seems to be a lack of morality in college. This topic morality and making ethical choices between right and wrong in college is the biggest personal struggle for me as I continue stumbling my way through college.

“I liked the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ for a lot of reasons,” was how I started my first writing assignment of this course, and now it is how I am starting for last writing assignment; but for different reasons. In the beginning of this class, my knowledge and understanding of writing was very limited. Fortunately, I did not submit my assignment with such an uninteresting and bland hook, but this shows the tremendous growth I was able to experience as a writer as a result of this course. Throughout the course I have been able to learn and understand the components of a strong written piece, and have hence learned to create intriguing hooks, a strong body that contains vivid descriptions, imagery, and literary devices (similes, onomatopoeia, and metaphors, etc.) and a satisfying conclusion.

This is the first time I’ve ever talked about this subject in this detail in anyway to anyone, I feel like I’ve always struggled expressing myself in anyway and I hope by writing I can help myself in someway. I apologize if I get lost in my writing and go down a path that may be off topic, I couldn’t really help it and I hope you understand that this is a direct reflection my train of thought. I also ask that anything I write here be kept completely private, I’m am in no way asking for help and even though these are very serious topic I do not need help (If this doesn’t make sense now, it most likely will by the time you’re done reading this essay).

Mr. Turner is always on the move she doesn`t really have a room that is signified as hers, through working with her I found she moves throughout the building any given day. She does two classes that I got to know well in my time with them and they are her 6th period civics class that has 8 students each of them have a unique IEP. From her 7th period World History class which had about the same number as her civics class. As well each of them had have a unique IEP. Within these two classes there were students that have autism as well as other students that have emotional disturbances.

Through my my journals and the time I’ve spent at Gardner Pilot Academy, I’ve noticed more and more the importance of developing good relations with students and fellow teachers. At the start of this program, I did not even consider the impact of relationships on learning. This may be because although relationships have a vital role on one's education, they are so commonplace in our lives they go unnoticed by students in the classroom. The impact of these relationships, though, is very noticable when teaching. While assisting Ms. Ramon with her classes, I not only saw the relationships she had with her students and how they created a more positive and productive environment, but also the impact of those relationships. During the first couple days I was assisting, I noticed she always expressed interested in her students and treated them with respect. Throughout the rest of my time, I continued to notice this, and have also observed how she makes students feel their contributions are welcomed and how she collaborates with fellow teachers. Experiencing her relationship building process has helped me develop my own relationships, both with students and teachers. Relationships are key in creating a productive and positive learning environment.

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Today, students were instructed to come in and draw a pictures to represent themselves based on their physical attributes or interests. I joined in as well. After this morning work, we all gathered around the carpet in the floor and shared what we drew and explained how it described us. This was such a cool get to know activity and allowed students to express themselves in a fun way. After, they had a vocabulary quiz later in the days so students were allowed to create flash cards in order to partner study. Again, this is a great idea to gets kids involved in learning, using a different activity to get the information across. I am starting to observe that most of Mrs. Prioreschi’s students are kinesthetic learners, who learn from hands on experiences and moving.

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.