My Educational Career Analysis

Throughout my educational career I have not experienced too many failures or setbacks. That is not to say that subjects have always come naturally to me, but with hard work, time, and energy, I have been able to meet my academic goals in my classes. The greatest academic challenge came to me in my two college physics courses. While my professor was one of the most intelligent professors I have encountered and clearly knew very advanced physics, he seemed to struggle with communicating basic physics concepts to the class. The professor lectured to us, rarely provided visuals or real world examples, and was not open to students having questions or needing extra help. While the class was not easy for me, I was able to get a good grade because I was able to rely on the physics …show more content…
However, I noticed many of my classmates, who were also biology majors, who didn’t have any prior knowledge, struggled in the class. The experience seemed to turn them off of physics. Several students dropped the class, stopped showing up, or didn’t enroll in the second part of the course, even though both parts were required for biology majors.
It was this experience that made me realize a student’s educational experience is very dependent on the abilities and personality of the instructor. As a teacher, I want to ensure that my students have every opportunity to learn and are not turned away from biology by my teaching. I believe that it is my job to teach in a way that will target all of my students’ ways of learning by including oral, visual, and hands-on presentations to teach the material. It is also important for me to teach to my students who may come from impoverished background or struggle with