The knowledge I continue to garner throughout this course will provide insurmountable benefits across all spectrums of life. For example, when working on presentations for school projects I now possess the knowledge of how to organize, deliver, and employ aids in a manner that will enable classmate to garner a greater understanding of the presentation while also promoting an overall memorable experience. Additionally, given my status as an instructor in my work center, I can now gauge the…
on campus, I immediately knew that Penn was the perfect university for me. Every aspect of the school matches the type of environment where I want to spend the next four years of my life. Between the flexible curriculum, the hands on approach to learning, the urban environment, and the diverse community, Penn has all of the qualities that I wanted in a school. Attending the College of Arts and Sciences would supply me with a solid liberal arts education that will enable me to view the issues…
I am taking away from the sociology program, the importance of standing up against discrimination and to make others aware of their actions. Secondly, I am taking away the importance of diversity. As a result of making many friends different than myself here at Kutztown, I was able to learn in depth about other cultures, religions, social classes, etc. The sociology program helped me to realize the importance of learning about the different aspects of others lives that I…
talents and ways of learning is a principle that may propose some challenges to replicate online, however not impossible. The student who may be a good writer, but not so good at test taking, or vice versa, the assignments will need to be developed with them in mind. I believe in encouraging different styles of teaching to meet the needs of my students, which is why I mix up the assignments I give to my class. I feel this gives every student a fair and even chance at learning and academic…
which students participate as part of the holistic learning experience. As Allan A. Glatthorn, Bonni F. Boschee, Bruce M. Whitehead (2015) states ‘The curriculum is the plans made for guiding learning in the schools, usually represented in retrievable documents of several levels of generality, and the actualization of those plans in the classroom, as experienced by the learners and as recorded by an observer; those experiences take place in a learning environment that also influences what is…
a risk and take subjects that I had never encountered in high school and sports studies was one of them. I mostly wondered what each class was going to be and how we were going to learn about sports through a different lenses such as english and sociology. Therefore, my expectations were exceeded because the practicum allowed all my brain power to be focused in one subject (sport), yet we dove into in numerous different subtopics in sports. For example, in Professor Colas’ class, we learned…
I learned about my cultural eye and how it applies to my major in sociology. I got to explore different genres from personal to rhetorical analysis to research in argumentative essays. I cannot begin to explain everything else I have learned in this class. The biggest take away I got was finding out how my writing pertains…
Reflexivity in contrast, involves a more immediate dynamic and continuing self-awareness. (Schon, 1987). Reflection achieves some learning but learner is the same person afterwards. Reflexivity achieves learning but also leaves the learner changed as a result. So we could say that reflexivity is reflection plus self-change. It's important to point out, though, that debate on reflexivity is rich and nuanced, and there…
Autobiography Education before college was a real rollercoaster for me. First I went to an elementary school in a suburb of D.C.. Not much stood out to me but I enjoyed playing sports and hanging out with my friends. Had an adjunct math teacher learning math that was way too hard for a 10 year old and that ruined math for me for a couple years but eventually I bounced back. After what I would call a pretty standard public elementary schooling I moved onto middle school. In middle school…
social structures. Sociology can be so broad and the subject matter is diverse; ranging from crime to religion, from family to the state, from the divisions of race and so much more. Most importantly it helps explain important matters in our personal lives, our communities, and the world. A sociology instructor at Kingsborough community college, located in Brooklyn New York, decided to incorporate students’ everyday life experiences into the classroom in an introduction to sociology course.…