Learning Letter

Hi Sean,
I would like to say, first of all, thank you for a great quarter. Not only in the classroom, but helping me figure out my trajectory. I tend to get a bit excited and not think things through and you helped me iron things out which I really appreciate. Second, thank you for teaching a class that I initially dreaded but ended up really enjoying. Not only did I meet more awesome people in the same program that I was in, but I also gained lots of great resources and learned the most about teaching that I have the past four years. It’s one thing to take Dr. Potter’s Intro to Ed class, it’s another to take a  look as to what we as teachers need  to teach and apply that to our students with different methods. The most important thing I learned was that we aren’t going to be perfect our first year teaching. We’re going to mess up and need to self-correct, but there are so many colleagues and guided texts that are there to help us do that self-correcting that we’ll figure it out and become better teachers because of it. Also, learning how many different aspects there are to an English classroom threw me for a loop for some reason. I never realized, despite being in a secondary ed classroom for however many years, that there were so many different methods that weren’t being used solely to keep us students on our toes, but to actually teach us how to learn via those methods, such as movies and presentations and “School House Rock”. This is the first class that gave me a fraction of a look into what my future has in store and instead of scaring me off, made me even more excited.

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