• What are your strengths as a student and as a teacher?

One of my strengths as a student is the ability to come up with solutions on the spot, which can be helpful when dealing with discussions and eventually leads to me doing research to keep updated with the fast pace change on the current events. As a teacher, one of my strengths is the ability to keep people engaged while talking about any topic, as long as I am also interested.

• What are your weaknesses as a student and as a teacher?

Even though I claimed it to be one of my strengths coming up with solutions on the spot is also my weakness due to the fact that I can be unprepared for certain topics. Being unprepared makes me feel ignorant and unorganized which then develops into shame, discouragement, and unmotivated. I believe that the main weakness I have as a teacher would be the fact that I have never been a "teacher". I try to help my cousins with their homework, but that isn't really teaching.

• What you feel most confident about when teaching Earth Science?

I feel the most confident about teaching Earth Science is the fact that I really enjoy random facts about earth and sometimes I like learning about how certain areas have so much diversity because a lake passes through it. There is also the fact that I love space and how vast and endless there is, there is also the Mar's space rover named Opportunity who was only supposed to last 3 months but ended up moving around for so much longer. Due to this excitement, I am confident that I can keep a class of small kids entertained.

• What you feel most nervous about when teaching Earth Science?

The most nerve recking thing about teaching Earth Science is the aspects that I don't know, the information that I was supposed to retain throughout my student journey. The unknown is what makes me nervous and how would the kids react to my nervousness.

• What are your personal goals for this class? What would you specifically like to have accomplished at the end of your semester?

I would love to accomplish the ability to be able to teach a subject to students. I am in my sophomore year but I feel like I don't have the experience others have. To be able to get out of my comfort zone and fears of teaching, in general, would be amazing because I want to be a role model and a mentor but I can't be that with my fears holding me back.

• Anything else you can think of that you would like to record your thoughts and feelings here at the beginning of this journey.

The beginning of this journey has been scary. I started last year but I was not the best student but now I feel motivated and ready to leap off into a new start that will help me with my future. I was not ready and I even had my doubts with my major but now I am as ready as I can ever be.

• For what percent of our classes were you present for?

1. 1. I believe I was present for class about 80% of the class. I tried to make it to every single but things came up but even then I tried to catch up.

• When you think back to your presence in class, what percent of the classes were you actively participatory in? (ie. not on your phone, talking, sleeping, etc.)

1. 2. I Would like to think that I participated in every class whenever I could and rarely would look at my phone.

• How many hours a week (on average), outside of class, did you study for/work on this class?

1. 3. I spent on average about 6 1/2 hours studying or preparing for this class.

• How many times during the semester did you directly interact with me on an individual level? (ie. coming and asking questions, getting clarification, an inbox message, etc.)

1. 4. For this semester there have been about five times where I communicated with the professor in order to get clarification or when I had questions.

• How do you think that your participation with the class and me may have impacted your knowledge and growth in this class?

1. 5. I think because the class is ungraded and the professor is easy to talk to it really made me feel like I was learning without the stress. It boosted up my eagerness to learn rather than just focused on doing homework that really isn't memorable.

Practice work

• How many of the practice work assignments did you get a "complete" on?

1. I would like to say that I have about 10 completed assignments.

• How many of the practice work assignments did you get an "incomplete" on?

1. I have about 19 incomplete assignments.

• How many of the practice work assignments did you not attempt?

1. I tried to do almost all of them it just I never finished them.

• How many of the assignments that you did submit were submitted on time? (usually 1 week)

1. About 6 assignments were completed on time.

• When you look at those numbers above and your knowledge of topics, how do you think that your participation with the practice work impacted your knowledge?

1. I believe that I was able to retain the information pretty well without doing the assignments. I've never really like to do "homework" but I still retained information and still like to learn without the stress of homework.

ePortfolio

• How soon into the semester did you get your eportfolio url created and submitted to me?

1. I don't really remember when I turned it in but I would like to say the same day we had to work on it in class.

• How many objectives did you get submitted and receive feedback on throughout the semester?

1. About three subjects were submitted and was able to receive feedback.

• How many objectives did you complete within the last 3 weeks?

1. I completed about 3 objectives within the last 3 weeks

• When you look at the answers above and your final product, how do you feel your eportfolio turned out and the impact that the answers may have had on its quality?

1. I honestly think my ePortfolio turned out to be really good even with the answers above there wasn't much of an impact on the quality of my portfolio.

Overall class

• When you look at the overall class, the entire semester, what are you most proud of accomplishing during your time in this course?

1. The most proud accomplishment that I did this semester would be my SLO presentation and my ePortfolio.

• When you look at the overall class, the entire semester, what is it that you most wish you could change or do differently?

1. I think the one thing I would've change for this semester would be turning in my work. It would be either that or be able to have better activities for the SLO-5 we did.

• When you look at the overall class, the entire semester, what final grade would you give yourself based on your current knowledge of the class objectives?

1. With my current knowledge about the class objectives and the work done throughout the semester, I think I deserve a very low B or maybe even a C.

• Do you think that your grade would match the grade I would give you? Why or why not?

1. I think it would because I understand that I haven't done much work in this class but I believe that I have been able to contribute to class discussions and been up to date with any given topic talked about in class.

Final Thoughts

• Any last thoughts/reflections/comments on your personal work/participation/growth in this class?

1. I would like to say that I truly appreciate this class including the professor for being extremely flexible and understanding. Therefore, I think I was able to grow not only as a student but as a future educator because of this class. I really think this class has been able to prepare a little bit more to become the teacher I dream to become.