Reflection on English 333-Spring 2007

I think this class challenged me as a student, writer, and future teacher. I have been in many English classes before this one and my experience in this class surpassed the experiences I had in other English classes. Sure...I was expecting to write papers and read texts, but, not to the extent that we did throughout the semester. First off, I was extremely surprised to do a movie. I had never tried nor attempted to do this and this class offered new experiences, new outlooks, and an open mind on how to express one's self.

The texts (especially the How to Learn Through Video Games) made me realize that children do learn a lot from these visual components. This text made me also realize that as teachers we must always try to convey the information through every student and through every learning style as possibly. I learned or recieved from the text rather that education and learning is a chain reaction starting from pre-school and/or kindergarten.

I really enjoyed the Memorandum the most because it gave us as future teachers to envoke what we thought should change in the school systems in our countries. I thought the memorandum was my strongest assignment I completed in this class and felt really proud of my finish project. It gave me an outlet to vent rather to what I believe our school systems need in order to improve test scores since NCLB looks like it may be here for a while.

I honestly enjoyed this class and have taken in a lot of important information through the texts, lecture, and my peers. This class has opened a new outlet in my realm of the computer world with the movie we had to made and that alone was a huge stepping stone for me!!!!! I thought this blog thing was great and would even be a great tool for the future highschool teachers to use with their students. I loved it!