Learning From Past Experiences: Personal Statement

Discuss another topic of this course that is interesting and useful to you. Relate this topic to your life.

1. List and briefly describe the two most significant distinctions or awards you have earned at university/college/CEGEP, or upper years in high school.

Tough college professors help us to improve and understand clearly what we learn. It's not all about passing the class instead it's about learning the material and knowing how to implement it in our daily lives. For instance, students tend to say that they're not going to use any of what they do in math in the outside world, having not realize that they use math everyday. I had a math teacher that was so crazy about

Another goal of the assignment was to predict ways to overcome the challenges in the class using past experiences.

Reflect on what you have learned in this course and discuss how it might influence your work as a professional

3. Describe how your instruction linked students’ prior academic learning and personal, cultural, and community assets with new learning.

The project was an embodiment of my service to the community that served me years before and made me into the person I am today. Service is something that everyone should feel

Yes, I had two classes before. First one I spent a lot of time emailing my teacher back and forth, asking about many things in the classwork like assignments etc, because his guideline was not really clear. The second class, the instructor was professional and gave a very clear instruction and examples. I remember until right now I did not asked him about any things during the class period.

Discuss how this course has affected you in your development as a student and explain how it has prepared you for academic success.

* Discuss how well your approach to planning and preparation addresses inclusion within the course, and justify your approaches in relation to key curriculum issues (including the role of new and emergent technologies).

This was especially apparent in my English class- we barely ever wrote, and what we did write was graded almost entirely on completion, not quality. However, this outlook would have to change. When I registered at Rancho Bernardo, I made sure to take challenging classes, including Honors English 10, Honors Precalculus/Trigonometry, AP Psychology, and Honors Chemistry. In Precalculus and Chemistry, I started fine, as I immediately realized that I would have to try way harder by doing all of my homework and studying outside of my homework, which I had rarely, if ever, done prior to 10th grade. In Honors English, however, I was not able to get an A just by doing the homework and studying. We wrote 3 at-home essays each semester, and each one was worth 12% of our grade. Due to my lack of essay-writing in my Honors English class last year, I was completely unprepared for these essays, and did poorly on one. Because I was still new to Rancho Bernardo, I was somewhat unsure of how to do better on essays, and I did not think of asking other students for help. I did know that there were other students on the cross country team who had taking this same class in prior years, so I asked

Learners learn in different ways, and teachers teach differently. For a long time I’ve been used to a lesson, a worksheet, and a quiz to end end the unit. Being put in Mrs. Meeks class was different and something that I had to get used to, and still am getting used to. Daily Evaluations and book reviews have taught me about responsibility, and have made me think deeper than I was before when reading and writing.

You must integrate your learning from the course and discuss how and why you have, at this point in your development, formed your viewpoint(s). Your response must include the following elements:

Our teacher viewed the textbook and his specific way of thinking as the only valid source of information which in order to get a good grade, we, the students had to simply accept. Due to the fact that the class heavily favored a specific way of thinking, and types of information which were viewed as important it dampened the need to find novel ways of learning that suited individual students better, and limited the need to critically think about the subject which would have deepened comprehension. This system also gave students a disillusion that they understood the subject since they had a high grade in the class. My personal disillusion broke after I took my first collage bio assignment. The assignment was on a subject we covered in bio 2, and I vividly remember scoring well on that test, but to my surprise I struggled on the assignment. I came to the realization that I just “knew” facts about the subject, rather then actually understanding what was happening. The assignments asked questions which required a deep understanding of the actually processes in contrast to knowing where specific items were or what the definition of a term was. Unlike high school, in college I was given the freedom to learn any way which I saw fit so I decided to experiment with different ways of studying. I found that

When I entered more regular classes in my junior year of high school, particularly my expository writing class, I did not do well. I was accustomed to doing the bare minimum, putting very little effort in, as that was what was required to pass my special education classes. However, it soon became clear that my expository class would be challenging because my teacher expected great things from her students. Once I realized this, I threw myself into the work. I would go to class after school to ask questions about the content that was covered, as well as ask my parents for feedback on my papers. I passed the class with a C, rather than my usual A, but my writing skills increased exponentially. The C grade was obviously not what I had hoped for, but it meant more to me than my A’s. There were many times that I struggled with self-doubt, wondering if I had made a mistake in my request to