Nutrition Course Reflection

The First time I came across planning a healthy appealed diet for people with chronic disease back when I was in high school. I saw my grandfather who was like a father to me suffering with his new diabetes diagnosis and complaining about the plain meal that my grandmother prepared to him. At that moment, I search the Internet for food recipes that are delicious, healthy and suitable to his health condition, and I prepared a meal that becomes his favorite. This practice opens my mind to the Nutrition discipline. Not only I became interested in this field but also, I became interested in how I had the ownership of solving my grandfather’s problem through research. In the Problem solving practice, I gained numerous experiences, in which …show more content…
Basically, this course stand on a rich discussion environment in which students present the most recent research findings and discuss and compare it with former counter point of the subject under discussion in way that apply critical thinking approach. I defiantly enjoyed this course where is no right or wrong answers; you just need to defend your position based on your knowledge and scientific findings. My personal experience and the critical thinking course have an influence on my Philosophy of Teaching which I have established in two primary philosophies as a teacher: to get students to think about Nutrition as a field of problem solving, and to discuss the research findings by looking at these findings critically in which they come up with their own understanding about the subject and reach their full potential of …show more content…
I took me a week to write my first draft, which was mostly focused on my personal statement. In fact, what it makes hard is that I do not have enough teaching experience!!! My first teaching philosophy draft was basically addressing my past experiences that shaped my personality in which being applied in my teaching methods. I also, talked about some teaching methods that I would use in my lesson; however, I explained my teaching methods in generals without specifying how to approach them with my students. Giving general statements is difficult to be