Samantha Aileen C. Cheng - Final Self-Reflection for ED-638-40

-

    As this course comes to an end, I realized how much time management is vital to completing our course work. During the beginning of this course, I had a meltdown with completing the tasks for the Intersession, and I found it overwhelming, especially it was being done during the holidays. After reflecting on how I need to start fixing my priorities and managing my time better, I completed my requirements on time and even earlier than scheduled. I felt relieved that I was almost done with my requirements, and I did not even need to stress myself over it. Time management is a lifesaver for me, and it helped me when I was able to clear my head and set my priorities. 

    As I complete my final requirements for this course, I feel proud of my accomplishments. Creating a blog was never easy since I never really started my own blog. Having a blog was fun because I got to see what I have written since the beginning of this course. This course may be short, but it will be one of the most meaningful courses I have taken. I would remember this course because this is the first course that caused me to break down and reflect on what I need to do to remedy my work habits. I usually have good work habits, but this year, the holidays got to me. The holidays made me realize how exhausted I was with all the work I had been doing for the past few years. My life has always been the same. I teach during the day, and I help run my family business at night. Then, I tutor one of my family friends during the weekend. The only thing that changed was that I added the Masters of Reading program to my schedule. I am thankful that I was able to reflect during the holidays. The holidays also made me realize that life is too short. I need to enjoy the moments that come my way and make memories with those I love. It also taught me that everything I do is for my family and me.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Samantha Aileen Chu Cheng's IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website # 2

-
Image
       Epic (https://www.getepic.com/) is one of the most effective digital literacy platforms that educators around the world have commonly recognized. It is known for its collection of over 40,000 famous and high-quality books from 250+ created by the world’s best publishers, which develops reading confidence and encourages critical thinking among children under 12.       The platform provides a well-rounded approach that makes learning fun and easy. Furthermore, It significantly helps educators and students be hooked on this platform because of its user-friendly interface. It features educational tools such as audiobooks, read to me, videos, quizzes, etc., that are beneficial to the students’ learning. The audiobooks and read to me allow the students to listen to the story, which helps in improving their pronunciation and fluency. The videos would be a significant factor in immersing the students more interactive, especially visual learners. Th...
Read more

International Literacy Website Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7

-
  Rodney Kohler ED638 Fall 2021 Dr. M. Rivera IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #7   Flocabulary ( www.flocabulary.com ) is a very useful tool and a teacher friendly platform with numerous short videos that can help teachers teach current events and historical topics. With each videos, it has remarkable graphics along with upbeat songs that allows teaching more fun. To sign up, you can easily go to the website and create a username by entering your email address. This website has a free trial, and you can also pay for subscription that cost $67 a year for more videos for your students. Using the platform, Flocabulary, you can easily find videos that matches your classroom lessons that can be exciting and fun for the students. Teachers using Flocabulary videos have used in their reviews, where the students watch videos after learning about a certain topic and completing interactive lyrics worksheets. Using Flocabulary at the end of units also helps ...
Read more

Juliana Cruz - International Literacy Association (ILA) Newsletter #5

-
Image
  International Literacy Association (ILA) Newsletter Weekly Project:  Effective Literacy Website #5 Story Place: The Children’s Digital Learning Library is an online literacy platform that focuses on building literacy for children in Preschool. This site offers digital storybooks that are animated. When you click into one of the stories, you will see a few expansion activities below. There are online activities for children to do as well as hands-on crafting activities that have printable templates for teachers or parents.  Included are videos that relate to concepts or ideas learned in the storybook. These videos are used to expand upon ideas learned in the story. Under each story, there is a reading list that relates to the theme of the story. So if a student reads a story about firefighters and wants to read more about firefighters, recommendations are given in this list.      Another great feature for building literacy provided by this platform...
Read more