We are now about a month into the B.Ed program (after including the first orientation week in August), and I think I’m finally starting to get a sense of what I’m doing. Initially, I couldn’t really see “the big picture”, and it seemed that the different courses that we’re made to take, were in no way related to one another. But, I’m feeling much more confident now, about both the program and myself.

The concepts that I learned in one course are now being brought up in all of my different courses, and I know how to apply them in different contexts. My instructors are doing a fantastic job of modeling different teaching methods for us, and I’m learning so much about how to teach. It’s very helpful because the instructors actually use the various methods that they use to teach us; I never realized that there were so many different ways of scaffolding and promoting learning in students. I’ve already started incorporating some of the different methods into my own lesson planning because I found them so useful when I was sitting in class as a student.