Why I will always keep formally learning about teaching
I am currently taking the Chemistry AQ Course, as well as teaching summer school. Needless to say, I am busy, but I am glad that I decided to stick with the course. Not only will I soon be qualified to teach chemistry, I am also getting a dose of "reflecting". I can't believe I am saying that, but it's true, and it's good for me. The difference between this type of reflecting, and a lot of the "reflecting" tasks I was set in teacher's college is this: I now have things to reflect back on. I have experience in both the regular classroom from my lovely summer school class, as well as the awesome job that I was doing throughout the regular school year. I can look back at what I did in certain situations, I can visualize myself in other situations... it's brilliant. I can see what people were trying to get at last year, and with some experience under your belt, it is actually quite easy to look back on things. It is more of a backward reflection th...