Personal Narrative: My Experience In Science Classes

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I have had some good teachers as well as some bad experiences in science classes in the past. Although I don’t remember too much about my science classes when I was in elementary and middle school, I do remember a lot from high school and have had quite a few science classes in college.
In middle school I did a lot of reading. It was actually completely all reading assignments. I didn’t do too many hands on activities, and whatever experiments I did do weren’t very memorable. This made science kind of boring for me and I found that while I did learn things it did not stay in my memory very well. However, when I took biology in high school things did change. I loved reading about the human body and all the different systems – it amazed me. Then we got to do dissections. It is not the normal “cool” thing to love
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She hated dissections and wanted to get it over with quickly – so she stabbed our scalpel into the crawfish’s back and wrenched it down. In her hurry to get it all over with she cut open several organs and mutilated them beyond recognition, it was gross. But even to this day I could tell you about some of the organs in a crawfish if I saw them. So even though it was kind of an awful experience, I did learn something that I still remember to this day. This really should be the goal of teachers today. So many teach for the test and not for life long knowledge. It is my hope to be a teacher one day that can make learning fun, and memorable. After taking biology that first time, I considered getting a degree in medicine as I had enjoyed that class so much. But I knew that I loved to teach as well and so I decided to try and combine my two favorite things and go to school for a degree in Elementary Education with a science focus in hopes of becoming a middle school biology

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