My Class Reflection

Based on my classroom learning experience and the interacting within the Deaf community, I have several point to bring to attention that will elaborate my thoughts on beneficial attributes of an ASL class personally and professionally. This class actually has become one of the most challenging, yet satisfying classes I have every taken in my life. The area which is engaged the least, producing ASL, is to me the most beneficial. This area of the class is the heart-and-soul of why I fell in love with it. It’s using communication to connect with others. At first while attending ASL 1, I loved the large classroom size because it was easier to hide amongst others. I still seem to rely on this mechanism such as the Deaf events and when they

Writing is a skill that needs to be practiced. Before this class, I didn't care about the writing because my high school teachers didn't care about my writing, as long as I turn a paper, I would be fine. Now, at the end of my Comp 2 class, I can assure I have improved my skills. From simply using MLA 8th format to writing an ethnography, this class has helped me get a more advanced writing style to accomplish the requirements that higher education requires.

Over the course of these past four years, I’ve learned and figured out that much of what we are being taught will have no use for me in the future. I’ve even had teachers who have told me that. For example, I still have no clue how insurance for your home or car works but I do know how to find the first and second derivative of any given function and give

I have always tried my hardest in school, trying my best to make my parents proud of me. Have there been time when I could have tried harder? Absolutely. There have been many times where I have found myself slipping in my schoolwork, and I have always caught myself. There is one time in particular of my junior year that I won't soon forget.

The MCHS class of 2017 started in school 13 years ago. At the start nothing seemed to particularly stand out about this class, but little did everyone know that this class would one day completely change Mariposa schooling. Now, I have been following this class for all 13 years of its school life and have observed and participated in many of the events that have happened. This class was the last class to go on the Fresno Zoo trip on Amtrak in second grade, the last class to get to go to the middle school, the first class to be shoved back into the elementary schools for eighth grade, and the last class to avoid common core (for some of us that is). I suppose that you could ask just why is this class known for such bad behavior when they’ve

It was the first day of the quarter and I decided to show up ten minutes early fearing I’d get lost and end up in the wrong room. As I walked in I felt a wave of nerves creep over me realizing the whole class was already seated, I quickly found a seat in the back trying to minimize the awkward stares I received. New subject, new instructor and new people to work with. I couldn’t help but to think about how the interactions would be with all these different personalities, I didn’t want a repeat of the dreadful time I had to spend with less than kind classmates in the past. Another thing I can’t help but to feel starting a new class is insecurity, I hate not knowing even just a little more than I should it seems that I always have classmates that knows everything and I’m the only one learning from scratch. I can see the frustration in my teachers face whenever I asked a question to only to be answered with another question, as if I should have known the material that wasn’t made available until the first day of class.

Last year, I was the “skipper” of the freshman class. Sometimes, I just didn’t feel like going to class, or listening to the long boring lecture. I skipped each course at least three times. I’m dropped a total of 3 classes last year, because I failed to go to class. I used to skip one class every week. English 101 class was so long causing me to lose interest in the class. I would rather watch a documentary on how to make napkins than sit in his class. I had to drop the class because I skipped so much, that I wasn’t going to pass the course. Another class, Politics 101 wasn’t interesting to me. After I took the final exam, I should have attended class every time. I only needed three points to pass with a C. The teacher

Coming into this class I wasn’t sure what to expect but I was really looking forward to it. I had some friends that had already taken the class and I had heard nothing but good things about it. I was excited for it mainly because it was the first real education class I was taking. I had a feeling that this class wasn’t going to be your typical lecture. I was a little nervous going into it because I can be sort of shy. I will admit the first day I was a little freaked out when I realized we weren’t going to sit at desks or anything. I think I was mostly nervous because I just didn’t feel comfortable around everyone yet. I quickly became more excited about the class rather than nervous after learning more about what the class was going to consist of. I went into the class with a really positive mindset about building our learning community. I promised myself that I would continue to put my best effort into the class even on days when I felt overwhelmed with other things. I was eager for the teaching opportunities because this was my first class where we actually were going to be able to teach and not just talk about teaching. I also promised myself that I would always do my best work not just because I wanted to but, because I just had this feeling that you would know if I didn’t. I guess looking back it was kind of silly of me to assume that you would know what kind of work I am capable of, but if nothing else it motivated me to do my best. I thought to myself “She has seen

ENGL 1143, is a technical writing course that enlightened me on how to create technical documents such as cross-cultural business letter, letter on inquiry, professional memo, graphics creation and analysis, finding general web sources, conducting research in library database, individual recommendation reports, group proposal and group presentation professionally. I would consider my learning in the class a successful one because, I met the required goals of the course including communicating effectively, using correct APA format and citation, conducting detailed research. Above all I was able to work effectively both individually and collaboratively which helped in the successful execution of my group proposal paper and presentation.

Over the course of this class, I have had many realizations about not only myself, but the world we live in.

At the beginning of the semester, our class was asked to record ourselves answering a series of questions relating to our personal perspectives on issues of oppression, our community, and our social identities. As we are approaching the end of the semester, we have been asked to reflect on our previous answers and discuss the growth and change we experienced as a result of taking this course.

Since starting this class, I feel as though my background knowledge of math would have been enough for me to feel comfortable in the classroom but, because of the readings and in-class tasks with my peers I've become more knowledgeable on many terms and practices of math.

As a Christian I’ve felt and experienced the love of God. Who I am and where I am today is due to God’s amazing love. The last two years has being a challenge for me, due to numerous health issues; I am able to live each day with a smile on my face because I know that God loves me. When doubt and fear comes my way, all I have to do is give it to Jesus. And I feel strengthen when I worship God.

There were many things that I was able to learn this semester in this class but in the next few pages I will take time to go over five main aspects that I really took away from this class. The first aspect that I wanted to touch on that I learned was the aspect that no matter what you can come back from terrible mistakes that you had made. There were many times where the topic that we talked about in class is very somber and wasn’t extremely hopeful, but something that I took away from talks and readings, as well as class discussion is that no matter what you can change and become better. Many times, after we mess up we tend to get down on ourselves and not see the progression that we have made whether we have an addiction, or we are just working on bettering ourselves.

Values play a keen role in how society is structured. They are the core of how generations geared their daily lives. People base major life decisions have values such as religious, political, dietary etc. Although, many values are set in stone some either tend to be switched a little, replaced, or just completely erased. As society progresses so does the way millennials think hence, newly emerging values like sociologist Hensley discussed. My family holds our values in a high place and are to past down. We base our daily activities on values that set us place for our goals. My family knowing our values enables us to make decisions clearly that have effects on our life. Our values include individualism, religion, education, freedom and