Class Reflection

Improved Essays
It has been an interesting class; fill with current topics that I believe are important to talk about. Honestly at the beginning of the class I did not think that this was going to be interactive at all. My first thought was that this was just going to only lecture, as many of my other classes. Professor Morgan, you really bring that energy required to talk about such delicate topics; an openness that actually pushes us to participate with our own opinions and personal points of view. I have to admit that this is not the first class I have had that talks about gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Therefore, I was already familiarized with many of the terms learned from the lectures, the stories, and some of the news shared in class. Nonetheless, …show more content…
I found out about the news that I had no idea that were happening here in the United States. I knew about some delicate issues such as race because as mentioned in another essay I am used to social/class discrimination, not to racial. The textbook was not hard to read but was helpful to learn the meaning of many of the words we use every day. Learn how to use them and their right context. It also had some of the histories of the many minority groups that coexists here in the United States. Each week there were many activities and videos to learn from that just compelled me to want to do my assignments. The other textbook I enjoyed because of the many activities it has that made me think about my own approach and understanding of what is happening around me. I have never had a class that made me think about my own life in such a way. One that made me notices about my own prejudices, stereotypes, and generalization that were actually poisoning my way of seeing and judge people that simply come from a different culture than …show more content…
I am used to be in class surrounded by strangers, random people that I do not bother to get to know because I will not see them again and even if I do have another class with them, I would keep my distance. I am an only child that has spent all of her life alone, aware that I was responsible for myself. That is why I am a girl of few friends, but those few worth more than hundreds. I admit that I am a little shy when I do not know people and being my true self does not come easily; I rather observe and listen before I react. I am conscious that many people could get offended if I talked my mind out because most of my thoughts are either white or black; I am not a fan of gray shades (or the movie). There are just many barriers that I have to fight against but at the right time. Leaving myself aside, many of my classmates were also strong minded people who had no trouble saying what they thought and that is admirable. My classmates surprised me–in a positive way–with many of their reactions to the questions you asked us and the agree/disagree activity. They had different points of view and many of them made me realize that one single problem can be seen from different perspectives. They made me understand that there are many approaches about an issue and they all had some validation in their arguments.
In conclusion, the class has been fantastic with its many important issues and topics that are relevant today. I know

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Joel Spring

    • 1825 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Overall I found this book very interesting. It covered a vast majority of topics and was very eye-opening on a lot of issues. Most of these issues happened in the past, but they clearly have affected education throughout the years and will affect education in the future. Many topics are controversial and it is very important to be educated on these so that as educators we can deal with them as they arise. This book did a wonderful job with addressing a lot of those issues, and made myself question if the world could ever go back to the segregated ways it once was.…

    • 1825 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    It also allowed me to see how history gets cleaned up before it is presented in textbooks. Important key facts and vivid descriptions are usually left out the textbooks usually have distorted U.S. history. There always something inherently bias in textbooks. The most unfortunate error in history textbooks is their exclusion of an honest discussion of the history of racism and inequality in the United States. For example, prior to reading this book I was not…

    • 1230 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    SEI Class Reflection

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages

    It’s hard to tell where to start when it comes to my experience with SEI. As I reflect on this class and my own career there has been real dichotomy of sorts. In the first half of my career I spent in a very culturally diverse community of Stoughton which had a very high ELL population with little no built in supports for teachers. In the second half of my career in East Bridgewater, there is a very low level of ELL’s with much more support. The biggest take away that I have from this course and my time in the classroom, is there are a number of tools available to teach children with a variety of strengths and weaknesses.…

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    COMM-102 Class Reflection

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Hello, and welcome to my reflection essay for my COMM-102 class portfolio at the University of Charleston. I would like to begin my explaining my background and touching base on how I ended up at this University. I am a transfer student from a Community College in Upstate New York called Herkimer Community College. After two years, I graduated there with an Associate’s Degree in Science, which was helpful with transferring credits to come here. Along with graduating from Herkimer, I also started playing lacrosse there was well.…

    • 774 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ESOL Class Reflection

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages

    I’ll never forget the moments of watching all my friends being able to go to the playground and enjoy themselves as I would have to walk to a different classroom to my ESOL class. ESOL was an English practicing class, it allowed for students that knew very few English and was a method for us to learn and practice our English. Towards the end of the class as we all headed back from recess, or in my case from ESOL I would have a short time to speak and talk to my friends, and they would always ask about my whereabouts. I would try to explain to them exactly where I was and what I would be doing, and I knew that they did not fully comprehend me, yet I still tried. I would attend my ESOL class all throughout the third grade, by the beginning of…

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Being Mexican American I believed I had a bit of an unfair advantage taking this course. I was looking forward to learning more about my culture and myself but at the back of my mind I believed I would already know some of the material. I am very happy to say that I have learned a lot more than I expected. I have learned a lot about Hispanic cultures other than mine, politics, and economics, and many other topics but off all the things we covered in class the three that most stuck out to me were the early history of Latinos in the US, learning about privilege, and educational achievement of Latinos.…

    • 637 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Abhi K. Mr. Blakeslee Hour 4 Fall 2016 Reflection For ELA Concepts This class helped more than other English classes that I took at PCEP. For example, I learned more information about ethos, pathos, and logos.…

    • 333 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    One problem I learned from class, is that women are currently still face many issues that were once thought of as being resolved. Issues such as wage discrimination, job discrimination, sexualization, and violence are only a few of the many issues we are challenged with. Not only do women still deal with these issues but we also endure sexism on a day to day biases. These issues never came to my attention in my everyday life. However, through taking this class it made me socially aware of the issues that I was facing but was not conscious of.…

    • 828 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Women Across Cultures

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages

    throughout history men have been in control of many things in this world. Views on women as less fit for taking care of certain task and it didn't make a difference in the event that she had some foundation or a smidgen of education. Society has looked upon men and seen men as the provider and there was not other way of looking at them. Women must be in the house doing what "women were useful for" that was to fulfill the men's needs and take care of the kids. Throughout the day women were assume to stay home and tend to their young one and cook meals for them.…

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Each week presented a new topic that opened my eyes to many things. The readings were hard to keep up with at times, but I got through it and it benefited me tremendously. At times I would find myself uninterested at was being said in the readings, but after a while something would catch my attention and get me interested again. I know that this class will be very beneficial to me in everyday since the things I learned about are topics that are brought up everyday.…

    • 948 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Before I took this class I was so ignorant about my African culture. I believe it was because I was not curious about my ancestors, nor did I learn about the culture in school. I watched television shows and still never questioned what stories they brought about Africa. The things I learned from African American women in history were memorable. My professor was able to explain and demonstrate the African American history from the beginning of 17th century till the 20th century in order to help me experience history second hand.…

    • 374 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    ASL 4 Class Reflection

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages

    April 22 st , I attended a Silent dinner in the Eastdale Mall in Montgomery, AL. This event only had one Deaf person due to bad weather happening throughout Alabama. Because of this, truly interact with the Deaf person was a difficult task. Though rest of us were hearing, we signed throughout the whole event. A couple of my classmates were also at this event.…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Class Divided Reflection

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The lessons the workshop taught the children that went through it was invaluable. We hope that we as adults show our children learn from us the mistakes of the past and treat people equally. A lot of times unfortunately people have stigmata’s either put on them by society because of how they look or they put them on themselves and people treat them differently. The lessons that this workshop teaches are lessons that everyone should have. You can spend our entire life trying to instill the values in your children that this class does in two days, and I want my children to be kind to people as we all do; I do not want them to ALIENATE someone because they are not the same as them, different ETHNITICIY or part of a MINORITY GROUP.…

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Class Group Reflection

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In the first week of this class, all members in my group had expressed their expectations about behaviors and attitudes the group should have. I think I am very engaged and productive during in class group work. Also, I think my other teammates are very productive and engaged in the in class group work. I spoke out my ideas about the questions or topic that have been asked. Also, I find quotes from the book to help my teammates understand.…

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Goal I The first goal of the program was to “Apply major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology to prepare for graduate study or careers in which psychological training is relevant”(). Two classes met this goal, Introduction to Psychology (PSY 111) taken at Anne Arundel Community College, and Introduction to Counseling Psychology (PSYC 432) taken at the University of Maryland University College. Introduction to Psychology was the first psychology course I took many years ago. It was the class I took because I had an empty slot on my schedule.…

    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays