Learning Outcomes of Course Reflection

This movie, The Classroom, which was very interesting to watch, discusses all that goes on in the school system, the good and the bad. But it also shows how things at home can affect the way the student acts during the school day. This movie definitely makes you look at students that act out differently, instead of punishing them maybe we should all look deeper into the issue and find a way for the student to thrive and use school as an outlet.

- According to the student, he has started a new class and he could not find where he could change the info that he has right now on his account.

Throughout this course, I have reflected on my learning. I have noticed my learning, for the most part, has not changed drastically, but instead it has become more refined. This is the first time I have actually taken the time to think about my learning process. Even though I have not spent a lot of time reflecting on my learning, I feel I now know more about how I learn and what I did find out can help me during the rest of the time I pursuit higher education.

Tutoring these courses including six other biology and chemistry courses, highlights my proficiency in this competency.I acquired this competency by completing over 10 laboratory sections for different sciences course, including physics, biology, and chemistry. As a paramedic instructor, I also have experience conducting laboratory skill stations for students. These laboratory stations consist of a variety of procedure and assessment

‘Reflective teaching should be personally fulfilling for teachers, but also lead to a steady increase in the quality of the education provided for children.’ Pollard (2008, P.4) Here Pollard is suggesting that reflecting on our own teaching experiences is not only important for the standard of education we provide, but also for our own benefit as it can be rewarding and very worthwhile to reflect on our practices. By reflecting on my own practices in SE1, it will enable opportunities to analyse strengths and weakness and how to improve for future practice, which will allow me to develop more as both a reflective and a professional teacher. This idea of reflection stems from Dewey’s (1910) cited in McGregor and Cartwright (2011) ideas where he suggests that there are three attributes which enables us to be reflective, them being ‘open-mindedness’, ‘wholeheartedness’ and ‘responsibility’. By taking responsibility for our own teaching and reflecting upon our actions, it allows us to be open-minded about changing and adapting to new ideas from what we have concluded from our reflections, which then allows us to fully engage with these new thoughts.

I am amazed, and pleased with how much I have grown in the last 7 weeks in this course. Personally, I have obtained a higher level of self confidence, a stronger determination of college success, and most importantly a stronger relationship with Christ. Professionally, this course has helped me by understanding more about time management, and goal setting, which is so important to a successful retail manager. Academically spaeking, I was astonised in this area most of all in my growth at GCU. I am no longer afraid of writing, grammar, nor English. Looking back at my writings, as opposed to now, I am doing much, much better, I understand I have a ways to go in learning about writing, but at least I realize better writing is obtainable for me.

It came to my attention a while ago that in applying to liberal arts colleges, I was not only applying for a world-class education, but I was also applying to be part of a small tight-knit community. That tight-knit community would be as diverse as it gets in terms of race, ethnicities, and ideas. Typically, a clash of ideas yields conflicts, but that is not what I have learned. From research and the extremely helpful DIVOH program, it seems that Amherst is a place where new families are made with students, teachers, and faculties. This is only possible because of the open-mindedness and “candor about the inevitable tension.” Any and all boundaries are crossed and meshed together artfully and splendidly.

On Friday March 7th I attended Ripon College Youth Conference where I learned about unhealthy relationships, drugs and alcohol, and legal consequences of 16, 17, and 18 year olds. Throughout this conference, I have learned many things that were interesting as well as helpful. To begin, my first session was on the importance of healthy relationships and how to handle an unhealthy relationship. My biggest takeaway from this session was that a relationship doesn’t have to be romantic but can be with friends and family as well. Also, once you start making excuses in a relationship the relationship has turned unhealthy. In my second session, I learned about drugs and alcohol. This session taught me about Tyrannizing Image, which is the shared concept

Starting University can be quite the daunting experience. Moving to a new city, or on my part; an entirely different country, meeting new people, and adapting to the student lifestyle, your senses are constantly overloaded. With all these new impressions and responsibilities hanging on your shoulders, it is vital to take a step back once in a while, and reflect over where your life is heading. Doing this can play a key role in making the most out of your years as an undergraduate student. I will therefore with the support of Boud, Keogh and Walker’s (1985), as well as Kolb’s (1984) and Gibbs’ (1988) work on reflection, reflect over my own transition into Higher Education.

I agree with you; this course helps us to reflect and recollect everything we have learned to put it into application. I wish the capstone class was once we completed Data Acquisition and Analysis, Managerial Finance, and Marketing and Brand Management. These courses would have been helpful for those who chose option 2 (business plan).

Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed a variety of pedagogical decisions my teacher uses. She teaches a lot of her lessons in a whole group setting. Furthermore, within the whole groups settings she teaches a lot of rules and content. For example, the students were reading “The Eye of the Storm”, which is about a storm chaser travelling to Florida to capture and document Hurricane Andrew. She questioned the students about what he does for a living. The students answered a storm chaser; however, the teacher then asked why he would choose a career that is potentially dangerous. One student said, “I think he chose this career because his job could tell us how dangerous the storm is, and he could compare this storm to future storms and

Facilitating the class discussion was a new and unique opportunity. While every week we read each of our classmates’ discussion board posts and reply to many of the posts, leading the class discussion required a deeper level of analysis by asking more questions and providing more facts in order to create a further discussion and engaging our classmates in this. Organization and attention are required to lead a discussion, plus as described by Laurie and Courtenay on their reflection, it requires to fully comprehend the literature and lectures for the week, as well as encourages and requires the student’s leading the discussion to expand their knowledge beyond the information provided.

For the final part of the project, me and the other students, plus the teachers and aides met in the classroom on Monday morning to reflect on the project. During the final round table teachers expressed some concern with communication. I think they felt like it was difficult to communicate with us students since they did not have any contact information from us. A great suggestion was made during the meeting to make a google document that would include all of our contact information as well as updates and information about the all the children who the teachers were concerned about. I feel like this would be beneficial for both the students and the teachers in order to contact each other more easily and to get updates on the children efficiently. During the course of the semester, I felt like the students and the teachers were not on the same page due to the issues of contacting each other. For instance, when me and partner would get to the preschool we sometimes would be unable to fully observe or coach during our time due to other activities happening in the classroom. For example, one time me and my partner came and an employee from the public library was there for her weekly reading activity. I felt a little surprised by this novel situation, but my partner and I would try and adjust our plan to make it feasible to the new situation.

The term “reflection” comes from the Latin term reflectere which means “to bend back”. A mirror does this. It bends back the light so that you can see what your face looks like. In education, reflection means to look back at experiences of learning and think about them. The act of reflection becomes the bridge between experiences and learning.

Reflecting over the last 6 weeks has provided me with a sense of great accomplishment. I consider myself very fortunate for the opportunity I was provided to perform my practicum hours with Mrs. Lorraine Bott, a 3rd grade teacher at Hazleton Elementary Middle School, Hazleton Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bott was welcoming and informative, and a provided an endless amount of assistance. Her wealth of knowledge, in regard to the students in her class, and her mastery of teaching was the nurturing foundation of the dynamics of her classroom. During the required practicum hours, one of the focuses, was to work with a student selected by the teacher whose reading level was not proficient due to specific disabilities that delay his progression in reading, in addition, the student I selected also displayed short and long-term memory difficulties. At the time of the required practicum, the student I chose to work with was the subject of a child study. The beginning stages of the observation, the child was friendly and enjoyable to work with, but at times displayed some roadblocks in his behavior that were hard to overcome. With that being said, my time spent with the student was very pleasant due to his even-tempered nature and the innocence of his age. Mrs. Bott explained to me that students with display academic difficulties learn to counterbalance for the difficulties and have the ability to learn supplementary skills that are provided through a constant system. I feel the student is very fortunate to have the opportunity to be a part of a classroom dynamic that is supported by a very knowledgeable and qualified teacher who strives to meet the needs of the students in her care.