522-in-review


 * "To Be a Teacher: The Creative, Complicated, and Crucial Business of Building Lesson Plans and Curriculum"**

When I started class, I didn’t have an idea of how complicated putting a unit together could be. First, I didn’t even know what a unit was. Once I found out about it, I began to stress out because I didn’t even know where to start. I didn’t have a clue of what I wanted to write. Furthermore, after talking to the teacher I got a better understanding of what I needed to write for my unit. I went home and brainstorm, put a PowerPoint together but was not good enough. Once again, I was confused and frustrated. Then I decided to look at my classmates’ unit ideas to help me get ideas for my unit. After looking at the Rainforest unit, it gave me the idea to do my unit on “The Earth,” on how we could help to save the Earth. Also, when we had the first question to answer in the wiki site, I didn’t even do it because I didn’t know how to get to the page. To begin with, I got the wrong website. Then once I got the right website, I still didn’t know how to get to the wiki page until a classmate showed me how to do it. I was very frustrated because everything was new to me and I felt so behind. In Education 522, I learned how to use the wiki it was very interesting and easy to use after I learned. Moreover, I didn’t know that once I become a teacher I could use the wiki page as a website for my students to have access to this new page. Little by little, students are going to learn more and more about wiki and it’s going to benefit them in the end because nowadays students are seeing newer and newer technology every day. The benefit that the students will have with the wiki page would be that they would be able to see and leave comments on each other’s ideas for projects. In conclusion, I think that I still have a lot to learn. For example, I need to spend more time using the Adobe Premiere program. With Adobe Premiere and Moviemaker programs, I could make my lessons and units more interesting for students. Therefore, in my summer, I’m going to play with Adobe Premiere and see what else I can learn. In addition, now that I know how to write a unit I’m going to be brainstorming on other ideas I could write units on for when I become a teacher.