cleverness and inventiveness of story-telling. I pondered the question, “Is it possible for me to write a proper essay that can satisfy my inner story-teller and fulfill all the requirements of a college level paper. Immediately, my unease was addressed with our class’s opening assignment a reflection essay that requested me to write about what I thought were the weaknesses and strengths of my writing abilities . In addition, I was asked to discuss my personal writing goals and what I hoped to improve
lesson according to the goals/ objectives, followed by constructing connections/patterns of subtopics, and lastly, making a table, venn diagram, or classification trees to compare, contrast, or classify ideas/terms. As discussed from the previous reflection paper, my learning style is a combination of logical-mathematical and solitary-interpersonal. I am not saying that I have mastered it and that these two are the only styles that I use in learning, but these are the learning styles that best work for
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In this reflection paper, I will be exploring how the concepts of social justice, positionality, and bias apply to my tentative capstone project topic of maker-centered/project-based learning in public school K-12 classrooms. First, I will explain how I can enact the goals of social justice through my research and offer an insight into the lived experiences I will be examining. Then, I will discuss which aspects of educational oppression I am critiquing and my underlying assumptions associated with
Reflective Essay Assignment DGunn Growing up in Starkville MS, hasn’t been easy but it has taught me some things. I was the second oldest our five children, the only boy. Needless to say life was hard and a struggle. We encounter many sleepless days and nights but we made it. I am, proud of the man that I have become. One Monday morning I woke up not wanting to deal with the day, but not going to school was not an option. I went to school, finished first block, and then walked off campus. I
When Ms. Alison announced that we will have a speech to do on the 14th of February I felt worried as I was not a big fan of speaking in front of people. She explained how the speech will be about historical events that happened on the day we were born in. The subject of the speech was easy but the thought of standing in front of people and talking about it was hard, at least for me it was. The next couple of classes were spent in the robotics lab to prepare for our speech and search for events
created, shared, and transformed by a group of people bound together…” (p 171). Living in California, there have been different elements that have influenced my cultural upbringing, such as, my family’s traditions, values, norms and beliefs. In my reflection of my personal history, I will describe my family background, what my positionality is, and my exposure to other cultures unlike my own. Furthermore, I will describe myself as a learner and how it may affect my potential as a teacher. I was born
Growing up I never understood what people meant when they talked about God and Jesus Christ. It didn’t really have any impact on me until I began to attend home fellowships with The Way International. By attending these home fellowships I was invited to take the first class in a series of classes called The Foundational Class. This class answered questions and gave me a better understanding of what God’s word says about me and how it can help in my everyday life. A few things I learned during the
I come from a world in which I see people struggling. Mexico, my country of birth and my home for my 18 years of life is a country in which 17.7% of teenagers from 16 to 18 years old do not study or work and 16.78% has left school in order to work and help their family. This leaves us with the fact that 34.5% of the population in Mexico, which are part of the range of age in which I fit into, has left school. As I see this statistics I can see how fortunate I am. I have the opportunity to study,
story to tell which can be expressed verbally through language or non-verbal through movements. People can see our emotion through what we portrayed ourselves in front of them such as our facial expression and also listen through our voices. In this paper, emotions will be presented from negative to positive emotions. These emotions have been emerged throughout four months of the semester and negative emotions tend to become dominant that happened in my life. Anger Anger is one of the powerful negative