Personal Narrative: Ten Things I Learned In Christian Culture

It helped me to have a broader view in my field of competency and to find new ideas from people who shared their own.

I feel like I have had a better understanding of how people really think. I liked being able to go through each assignment and relate them to my own personal life. I have also learned how to manage my time much

I learned that I am incredibly passionate about the law. I realize I enjoyed learning the rules of both Civil and Criminal Procedure, and I like reading and analyzing cases.

For instance I was able to get so much more perspective into other cultures, including my own. It has helped me to realize that even the smallest things can have a large effect on history. I enjoyed learning about things that otherwise I wouldn’t seek out to learn on my own. The chapters in the book I favorite were Beer and Coke-Cola. I enjoyed beer because the chapter made a lot of sense and I enjoyed learning about the early civilizations. I was able to understand why beer was so popular. I liked learning about Mesopotamia mostly because once farming was brought about all of these new and extremely important technological advances continued. I enjoyed Coco-Cola the most because I love US history particularly the twentieth century, I also love the drink. I knew that Coca- Cola was very important to America, what I didn’t know was how much. I read about the letters from World War Two and was shocked to see how vital it truly was. I thought it was interesting that other countries associated Coke immediately with the United States, making it Americas drink and an extremely recognizable

I REALIZED THAT I must be ‘bicultural’ (belonging both to the world of education and the world of everyday experiences) to be an effective researcher.

Learning about my interest improved my understanding of hard you have to work to get where you want to be. What I learned about my interest is that it takes a lot of

I learned more about the level of learners that I have in my class. My mentor teacher told me some names of high and low level learners, but observing them being taught and teaching them are two very different realities. I also learned that even my high level learners were struggling second grade counting skills (ex: ten more, ten less). This lesson also re-emphasized the importance of modeling learning for students (I do, we do, they do).

I learned about Von Willebrand Disease, what it is, how it is different from Hemophilia, how it affects people both physically and emotionally, some of the daily struggles, and how DNA and genetics are connected with such diseases. Learning facts about my topic allowed me to discover things I have an interest in. For example, learning about how gene mutations can affect one’s life so much inspired me to use my interest in genetics to possibly find a way to cure or make life easier for these patients. Reading about how they struggle day-to-day put things in perspective for me. I realized my personal struggles which I think are the end of the world, aren’t nearly as bad as it could

I learned that I can make a difference in the community by even spending a weekend volunteering. Many people thanked me for my time helping out, and that made me really happy people appreciated it. I made a few more

I’ve learned it will teach you some things that no one can ever say or explain to you. You will have to go through them, learn from them and grow into the person that you were ultimately supposed to be and you just so happen to produce a wonderful extension of yourself, someone you can be proud of and someone that can touch others’ lives in a way that you could never

Understanding better now that the time frame, pattern and arrangement that was set aside to seek God is a long life commitment. By all means that is good news to me.

Because of this, I have more situational knowledge. Henceforth, when I read Hunter 's words that leadership is a skill unless properly taught and one cannot acquire the ability to lead, it became a reality check for how I have been behaving towards others.

I got to know myself better, and it is not like I did not know already most of the things I discovered. It was just that I tended to ignore them or to underestimate their importance. While learning to be a teacher, everyone always told us, "be strong", "do not take to your heart", but those words just caused me to neglect my feeling or to avoid them.

I learned a great deal about the classroom environment, classroom administration, and classroom procedures in the special education. There is a great deal of preparation and training for professionals in special education. I got a closer examination and engagement with these kinds of

Educational Psychology has really opened my eyes and encouraged me to think about who I am and what kind of teacher I would like to be. In this class we have delved deep into ourselves with different self-assessments, which have lead to a better understanding of our strengths and weaknesses. Getting to know myself so thoroughly allowed me to realize how dynamic each one of my students will be and how my teaching style will need to be just as dynamic. Then, learning about the different philosophies of education helped me grasp how to formulate my own teaching philosophy. Last but not least, participating in the Junior Achievement program allowed me to get a taste of actually being in the classroom and gave me the opportunity to test out my own philosophy temporarily. Overall, understanding my personalities, learning about different educational philosophies and seeing how they work in the classroom has showed me how to be a teacher that makes a difference in the lives of my students.