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Hi Sean and all others who read this! Fall 2019 English 486 was fantastic and basically this is all the reasons why I believe this to be true.

The text presentations, I loved them. I originally thought it sounded boring. After completing all three and looking back realizing how excited I was to read and learn how to become a better educator through these texts, that was pretty cool. I really enjoyed the in class small group discussions talking about our blogs and the NES text. I feel like some of my most valuable learning came from comparing myself to others here. I loved every bit of the text presentations and all the work and love that went into sharing how to be a better teacher from my classmates. I loved hearing everyone’s perspectives and comments on the different methods purposed. My favorite text of my own was Reading Across Diverse Societies because of how well it covered the practice over theory. My favorite area in general was definitely the visual literacy/graphic novel text presentations. I believe this one was my favorite because it introduced me to a world I have never really been opened to before and better yet, it gave me ideas on how to teach it. Overall, I think this course has majorly influenced and changed how I view myself as a teacher. Like I said in my content portfolio snippet – I had a very strong idea of what I wanted to be and what I wanted my classroom to look like. After listening and learning through so many presentations on educational texts and meeting so many other educators and their views and ideas who I am and who I will be in the future changed drastically. I always knew collaboration would be important but after this I can’t imagine not talking all the time to the people are dealing with the same things as me. The amount of great conversation and friendship building that took place both during class hours and outside are one thing I will carry with me forever.

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