Maryam Baez Education 353 Dr. Wilson Final Growth Statement Education 353 benefitted me in ways. ma!

ority of the content we went o"er in class

was re"iew of #re"ious information $ ha"e learned in other Education courses $ ha"e ta%en. &owe"er' $ felt li%e we went more in de#th and actually #ut the information into #ractice. For e(am#le' in my Education 3)* course' $ remember learnin+ about collaboratin+ and inte+ratin+ learnin+ and the different ways to incor#orate it into your classroom. $n this course not only did we re"iew the different ways to collaborate and inte+rate learnin+' we actually wor%ed in sub!ect teams' had s#ecialist amon+ the +rou#' and collaborated to+ether in how we were +oin+ to inte+rated different sub!ect standard s in our lesson #lans. ,his was "ery hel#ful and easier to follow. $ also found the Danielson-s Domain rubrics .uite hel#ful. $ li%e that we went o"er each domain se#arately and bro%e it down and saw e(am#les of it in order to actually +et an understandin+ of what it is. $-"e ne"er heard of the Danielson-s Domain so it was new information bein+ #resented to me. $ also found it easier to assess the classroom $ was obser"in+ basin+ it on the domain rubrics. ,he Danielson-s rubrics hel#ed me ha"e an understandin+ of the educational community and how to connect the student-s learnin+ to other areas of %nowled+e and enhance effecti"e teachin+ to im#act a #ositi"e learnin+ en"ironment. ,he beneficial #art of the course was the field hours. $ ha"e done obser"ation before in different schools but $-"e ne"er been so in"ol"ed in a classroom till now. Before $ only sat at the bac% of the classroom obser"in+ the class and !ust recordin+ what $ obser"ed. ,his time around

not only be $ obser"e' $ also interacted with the students' hel#ed them with their wor%' tau+ht a lesson' and hel#ed the teachers with +radin+ and homewor%. $ actually became a #art of the classroom and e(#erienced what it was to be a teacher. ,he teachers $ was assi+ned were also "ery insi+htful and effecti"e. $ saw many thin+s $ learned in class in the field li%e the differentiation and the different city testin+. $t was .uite an e(#erience and "ery beneficial.