My Final Blog!!

Dec 6^th, 2010

At the beginning of the semester, the idea of having a blog to do seemed like a huge, ominous project. I’m actually sad that it’s over though. It was a nice place to teach, learn, question, and understand the material we’ve been discussing in class. I learned a lot more than I would have, had I just been studying normally like any other class. This way, the topics are engrained into my memory, so it’s going to be very difficult to forget them. Even if I don’t do amazingly on this, it helped me retain knowledge that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise.

Today in class we were asked three questions:

1.       What is your most significant take-away learning from our class?

I hope to retain most everything that I learned, because I think I’ll use most of it. A few things that stuck in my brain were; Erik Ericksen, Operant Conditioning, and SQ4R! Erik Eriksen for no reason other than I thought it was interesting that you can split people’s lives up like that. Operant Conditioning will be extremely helpful in dealing with misbehaving children, and SQ4R will help me remember and retain what I’ve read; it will be immensely helpful for the next three and a half years.

2.       Has your thinking changed in any way? Why?

My attitudes about elementary children have changed a little bit. This doesn’t mean that I’m going to suddenly switch into elementary education, but if I have to start out there and work my way up, it won’t be the end of the world. I think this is because we’ve studied younger kids, and they don’t seem that bad.

3.       What about implications for your planned professional practice?

Well, I’ve touched on this a few times; I think that I will use a good majority of the things I’ve learned this semester. The class itself has shown me what kind of teacher I want to be and how I can plan to handle a rowdy classroom.

Well, I’ve had fun writing this! I think I have learned so much and I’m actually really sad that it’s over. I plan to continue to learn about education and children and I’ll see you all in a few years when I’m teaching! Adios!