Reflection Paper 2

Wilfrido Landaira

EDUC-500 Reflection Paper For many people, their experiences during the years spent in school from PreK through their senior year of high school are incredibly formative. The environment that they spend time in, their interactions with other students and teachers, and the methods used to teach them all impact the student both in that moment and in the future. In this paper, I will talk about my school experiences during those years and reflect on how they may have impacted my life today. As a whole, I think the latter half of my schooling made a bigger impact on me today than my PreK through 6th grade years did. This is when I met a few of the most influential teachers I ever had, and they should receive the credit for making me want to become a teacher. In high school I had a two teachers that had a huge impact on me, Mr. Panzer and Mrs. Palmer. Mr. Panzer taught history, the subject that I want to teach, and Mrs. Palmer was my art teacher for three years, and had a hand in a few of my extracurricular activities as well. Mr. Panzer’s teaching style wasn’t amazing on its own, He lectured off of an old overhead projector

They would use group assignments sparingly, and instead come up with a lesson or activity that would incorporate most, if not all, of the class at one time. I find that those are usually more beneficial to me, because it eliminates any awkwardness a group assignment might have, and it opens up the room for a larger discussion so you can hear about ideas that you might not have heard otherwise. I typically find that using small group assignments too often is detrimental to me because it is usually too time consuming, which leads to the rest of the lesson being rushed