Starting school at a young age where there were naps, coloring, playing, story time etc. That was a amazing time until the hard stuff came into play. As I progressed through elementary that was when I wanted to go back to pre-k and or kindergarten. It always felt like where has the time gone while sitting in a regular traditional classroom, who would be so cruel and take away my days of napping. Eventually I got over it and realized this is how it has to be from now on. Fast forward to the beginning of high school there I am unprepared and so distracted, it was nothing like the high school's that was on television, for example "High School Musical". That turned around real quick I begun to focus more and by my junior/senior year I was academically profound. There I go again graduating, class of 2014 and off to NJCU. Immediately I chose Biology as my major. Boy! Was I shocked by the way college was constructed, so much freedom, fewer days to go to class, and no one breathing down my neck. The way I started off was not working in my favor by procrastinating and becoming lazy, so I needed to make a change. I became more involved with my studies, spending more time practicing and studying. Here I am now a junior in college, still studying biology, accepted into the Noyce program for STEM teachers. With my degree I plan to teach 8th or 9th grade, but when thinking long term I do hope to become a pediatrician.
My expectation from this course is to basically to think deeply in context, to think outside the box when it comes to teaching, to learn not to just stick to the traditional classroom setting. I must say that I am already thinking when it comes to this subject. It took me back to my first time learning to read. My mother bought me these ABC books and I got a leap frog one Christmas from my mother and father.
So, I basically learned to read at home first then while in school. For me I think reading was easy just because I had help plus that extra push, but if my circumstances was different where I did not have any support then I may have struggled. My passion for reading was so alive when I was little, it was the days where reading was not forced onto me, but it was something that was fun for me to do because I wanted to read. Along the way 100 book challenge was incorporated into the curriculum then it all went down hill reading became dull;life less. It was the whole idea that I read because I wanted too and took my time reading, but then all of a sudden we had no other choice. Now my attitude towards reading is always like "do I have to?" If I can avoid reading I will. Soon enough I do hope to revive my passion for reading. Who knows maybe this class can help me with that.
Hey! There is a First Time For everything!
