Paul Giganti: A Career As A Writer

I cannot believe that naïve Paul Giganti from fifteen weeks ago only thought about using his history minor towards a career as a historian or archeologist! Looking back, the only part of my former reflection which still echoes is my confidence in the importance of history to society. This history careers course has opened my eyes up to understanding who I am as an individual as well as the wider range of possibilities for a history career. So within this reflection essay I will explain how the impact of this semester long course persuaded me to reconsider using my degree to become either a legal attorney, an educator, or business associates. My journey to finding out what I wanted to do with my degree began with the second week of class. Which just happened to go in depth on historians as educators as the first suggested career field for a history degree. I was …show more content…
Activities like the daily informal journal entries at the beginnings of class generally over retained learning in previous readings or lectures. The two activities which stood out the most to me during the historians as educator’s week was the sample lesson plan assignment and the elementary school teacher who came in to speak to us. Before experiencing this sample lesson plan assignment I had no idea how much creativity and organization went into the planning of curriculums made by teachers. I enjoyed how the assignment also relied solely on my planning instead of using a standardized routine of work. In recollection, this assignment was my favorite out of all the others and my views on history