At the beginning of this class I had mixed feelings about what the course would entail as far as the content and it sounded like we would have to make a lesson plan and teach it to students who were younger than us. I remember wishing I didn’t have to take this class in order to fulfill my degree requirements as an elective so I could graduate. In the beginning, I wasn’t very excited about being “stuck” in fieldwork 411W especially since I though it would be writing intensive. However, I decided to have a good attitude and put the work in since as the saying goes you get out of something what you put into it. Looking back now, I am glad that I wasn’t able to drop the class, because of the opportunities that this class afforded me to learn more about the structure and concepts behind the large beast that is the education process.

I think I learned a lot about the way teachers approach presenting lessons to students and how students can achieve more out of the classroom experience. As a child on through the years of high school I never really enjoyed going to school. Even today as I write this, I would rather be outside. However, I understand now as I did then that education is important especially the kind you get in school because education is not only a key to open doors in life to better things but a way to understand the way our society functions.

When Mason and I visited Mr. Simms class it was refreshing to sit in their midst and remember how it felt to have college ahead of me and with that all the doubts and fears of the uncertainty of the future. Now that I am facing a different type of challenge as I move on past college, fieldwork was a good class to take as I am on my way forward. This class has helped me dissect the elements of the classroom especially the way that classrooms are evolving to fit the future expectations of our society.  As I move forward in life, I doubt I have seen the last of school though it may not be in a classroom anymore. I have seen rather effectively through this class that the building blocks of my education are accessible and shareable in ways that are not bound by a classroom or institution.