My First Class
By CGB
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 18, 2009
This is my third semester (fourth class) at CW Post. I regret to say thus far I have not been overly impressed with the level of curriculum intended to prepare us for our future teaching careers. Today, however, I finally felt like a graduate student ready to be challenged! It has been studied and demonstrated that students have a tremendous variance in learning styles. In my case, I crave structure and order with room for creativity. I can honestly say that I'm amazed and more importantly inspired thus far by Prof. Boyanton's organizational skills and the incorporation of technological resources. Although I successfully completed my previous courses, I did not feel like I gained solid knowledge. I would love to gain not merely knowledge that is textbook based but thought provoking with ability to sharpen my reasoning skills.
In my opinion, K-12 school years are built on developing foundations for knowledge acquisition. Our college years are to fine-tune reasoning skills. My expectations for the graduate degree go far beyond textbook based and teacher-centered lessons. I hope to acquire critical thinking and practical skills that will be applicable on daily basis in my future elementary classroom.
Today we played the Name Game to learn a practical reasoning skill of memorizing people’s names. It was a clever technique that I have heard of before but never had the opportunity to practice. I enjoyed getting to know my classmates and build my own sense of confidence by able to memorize approximately nineteen names in less than thirty minutes. This simple game ingeniously prompted us to review the different styles we learn in, teach in and foundations of teaching strategies for the classroom. I look forward to learning more practical as well as theoretical skills in the lectures to come.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
May 18, 2009
This is my third semester (fourth class) at CW Post. I regret to say thus far I have not been overly impressed with the level of curriculum intended to prepare us for our future teaching careers. Today, however, I finally felt like a graduate student ready to be challenged! It has been studied and demonstrated that students have a tremendous variance in learning styles. In my case, I crave structure and order with room for creativity. I can honestly say that I'm amazed and more importantly inspired thus far by Prof. Boyanton's organizational skills and the incorporation of technological resources. Although I successfully completed my previous courses, I did not feel like I gained solid knowledge. I would love to gain not merely knowledge that is textbook based but thought provoking with ability to sharpen my reasoning skills.
In my opinion, K-12 school years are built on developing foundations for knowledge acquisition. Our college years are to fine-tune reasoning skills. My expectations for the graduate degree go far beyond textbook based and teacher-centered lessons. I hope to acquire critical thinking and practical skills that will be applicable on daily basis in my future elementary classroom.
Today we played the Name Game to learn a practical reasoning skill of memorizing people’s names. It was a clever technique that I have heard of before but never had the opportunity to practice. I enjoyed getting to know my classmates and build my own sense of confidence by able to memorize approximately nineteen names in less than thirty minutes. This simple game ingeniously prompted us to review the different styles we learn in, teach in and foundations of teaching strategies for the classroom. I look forward to learning more practical as well as theoretical skills in the lectures to come.
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