Interesting Classes Taken

Skills Learned:

• Ability to offer and receive critiques based on personal work.
• Expressed critiques in a written and verbal fashion.
• Understanding of the difference between objective and subjective suggestions.

Skills Learned:

• Working through others writing despite not having the same experiences.
• Understanding when to give praise based on my personal thoughts versus well done in the style or format of a genre.
• Practiced reviewing multiple genres for many different areas of focus (medical, psychological, business, English, etc.)

Skills Learned:

• The benefits of taking classes again, but with an "educator" mindset.
• Creation of mini-lessons and exercises.
• Developing guides that are comprehensive outside of the classroom.

Skills Learned:

• Understanding the importance of instructor-based feedback.
• Learning based through class-wide discussions being difficult but rewarding, when done correctly.
• Structuring reading assignments so as not to destroy any interest in the book, but also to avoid further confusion of the purpose of reading.

Skills Learned:

• How to handle, discuss, and identify symptoms of mental illness in students.
• Educating based on actual student development and skill level, rather than where students are "expected" to be based on age and class.
• Developing trust with students and recognizing their needs, even when they are struggling to see it themselves.

Skills Learned:

• Determining appropriate, relevant, and recent novels that might be able to replace "traditional" whole class novels.
• Understanding the benefits of student choice in reading based on individual novels as well as literary circles.
• Teaching relevancy based around students seeing themselves in fiction such as age, sexuality, race, and gender rather than focusing on traditional literature.