Mirror, Mirror...

Every time I write a reflection, it always makes me think of the famous line from Snow White, "Mirror, mirror on the wall..." It's the most famous mirror of reflection around! (And also because of my love of Disney movies) :) In all seriousness, I really had a good experience putting data together during this course.

When I saw that my next course would be research, quite frankly, I was nervous. When I hear the word ‘research’ I automatically think of my college English class where I had to research a topic and write a 20-page paper. That does not come with many happy memories. However, when I got into the first week of reading and talking with my site supervisor, I was quickly relieved when I realized that my first impression was wrong. What I didn’t know is that I was already doing informal action research on a day-to-day basis always trying to improve my skills and do what is best for my students. 

I have also enjoyed blogging about my plan. It helps to get it all out on ‘paper’, this also helped me see where I had holes or could improve in certain areas. I also liked it because in a silly way, I felt like it was more informal than the schoolwork, and we could relax when “blogging” about our plans. I look forward to utilizing this tool not only for learning purposes, but for all around professional development.

I have enjoyed this course and am looking forward to using the tools I learned from this class, to better my teaching and learning in my own classroom!