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Education Narrative Unit 1

Post author By Jonathan Pallares
Post date February 22, 2021
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When I was making my way through middle school and high school I was never very enthusiastic about school. It wasn’t that I struggled with understanding the material, I just didn’t really have the motivation to do the work. When I did pay attention and do the work I would sometimes find myself thoroughly enjoying what I was being taught.
This is true for the trigonometry class I took in high school. In high school I was known for making decent enough grades to get by because I was never really interested in the material. However, when it came to trig I was often very eager to go to class and learn what was next in the curriculum. This class relatively changed my whole view on school.
Before I took trig, I would just do the bare minimum to pass. However, going to trig and working out the math problems really shifted my whole perspective. I was fascinated by it. Finding the missing variables and the missing sides to a triangle, challenged me in a way that made me want to sit there and figure it out until I got it. It was almost like a game.
I would go home after school and start with my trig homework first, just because I liked the challenge. It was refreshing to genuinely be interested in school since I never really was before. After taking that class I tried to find something that interested me in every class. I found that when I was genuinely interested in what I was learning, school felt more like something I wouldn’t really mind doing, rather than it feeling like a chore or obligation.
Taking trig completely shifted my perspective about learning and going to school. I went from being someone who only did what I needed to do pass to someone who genuinely enjoyed what I was learning.

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Educational Narrative, Unit 1

Post author By Zinaida Zolotnik
Post date February 22, 2021
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Educational Narrative

An educational narrative is writing with the primary purpose of bringing back into memory the learning context. It is distinct from a narrative such as an imaginary narrative, encompassing mysteries, fairy tales, historical narratives, and horror stories.

My first class in college in my country was about communication skills, and it transformed my college life forever. Our first assigned topic was to discuss presentation skills, and the lectures informed us that everyone would have to present their piece. At that particular moment, I was nervous about college and standing in front of fellow students to present my work. My presentation was short but students and the lecturer applauded me. It was a memorable experience in my life.

A week later, my classmates voted me their class representative, a leadership position I had never held before. It was overwhelming and exciting at the same time. What this whole process taught me is to be opened minded to new challenges. The assignment and the class instilled in me critical thinking skills, the courage to discover new paths, and my self-confidence improved significantly. Giving me the chance to stand in front of classmates, the communication skills class taught me the significance of education and its benefits.

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Week 4 – My history with education

Post author By Asset
Post date February 22, 2021
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The first thing that jump to mind when I am thinking of education is the diversity and language differentials as I have never really given much thought of what memories has impacted “my relationship to education”. I have studied in 5 different countries who mostly spoke different languages and had different regulations, celebrations and ways of learning , but when I think of my history of education ,the “anecdotes” that comes up are mostly the ones from my time in the UK as this where I studied half of high school and college which is still high school in the US , this where I built friendships that till this day still going on and had the best and funniest moment , the difference with our stage of high school which we call secondary school and between what we call “college” was that in high schools we had to wear uniforms ,there was no phone allowed ,we couldn’t get out for lunch and we had classes all day which I wasn’t very fond of however in college you were allowed phones, you could wear your own clothes and not only could you could leave anytime but we had less classes is kinda like colleges here only that that’s what we call university.

I would say some good moments I remember was mostly at lunch time and my travel & tourism class as in our class most us of got along even with the teachers so it always banter. I’ve always been the student that does her work first then mess around as I dislike being behind or failing and catching up simply stresses me out. I enjoyed lunch time and after school there always something entertaining going on and during Ramadan when we was fastin we would go chill in the class during lunch time play music and cards and also remember the times when our teachers knew the deadline is coming up so she would tell me and my friends to stay after school help us with the whole thing to get the best grade because she saw potential in us or whatever that means .

Overall now that I’ve thought about it I don’t dislike education ,I feel like difference experiences changes your opinion on it as like in secondary school I kinda felt like it was draining but when I went to college I actually like getting my work done and studying or maybe it was also because I chose the subject and the environment was better.

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