My Most Memorable Learning Experience In Grade School

As a child in grade school didn’t seem very important to me, I was more worried about enjoying my time in school then learning. I don’t have any memory on a learning experience in grade school were it impacted my life other than learning my ABC’s in preschool. If I could go back into time I would definitely like to pay more attention in school and learn more at a young age rather than having to learn it later when I got older. My interest in school started in high school; I started taking education more seriously when I got into high school and I was able to pick classes that interested me as electives.
My most memorable learning experience was my freshmen year. My freshmen year I had an English teacher names Mr. Garza. Mr. Garza introduced …show more content…
He would give us three weeks to finish one chapter book; if you were done with the book before the three weeks we would go on to the next book of our choice. He would introduce us to his favorite books at the beginning of the year and tell us a little bit about the books and why they were his favorite, I read two of the books he introduced us too and one of them “snitch” will be my all time favorite, I read the book three times on my own time because of how much I enjoyed it. Growing up I was the type of student that when we had silent reading I would pretend i was reading or read the very minimum in case I had to write about it. In Mr. Garza’s class he would make us write about what we read every single time we read so I had no choice but to actually read the book and just to find out I truly enjoyed reading. After my freshmen year I had another English teacher who would push us and motivate us to do better always. Miss. Brown taught me the basics about writing, she would have us write free rights every day and we did a few essays in class with her help. I’m not sure what happen the rest of my years in high school I didn’t have many teachers who …show more content…
When I graduated high school I took a semester off from school that was probably the biggest mistake I could have made. By taking off a semester of school only put me further behind to reaching my goals in life. When I got back to school I wasn’t very educated in how college worked I didn’t have anyone to guide me so I wouldn’t take my courses seriously. My first semester I failed every single class I took I stopped going to one at the middle of the semester and at the end I stopped going to the other one. That affected me on getting financial aid the following semester so I had to appeal for it. When I appealed I told my self I had gotten my self into this situation so the only way to get out of it was by taking school more serious. Since then I have tried my hardest to do good in all my classes. In my second semester I took an English class where I read about growth and fixed mindsets in an article named “Brainology”. A growth mindset is where a person is interested in learning and is not afraid of failing, were a fixed mindset is