Monday, December 3, 2012

Reflective learning Journal # 10: Finally :)


Last Tuesdays (as I always start with last Tuesday) I learned a lot. When I took a tour in my blogs I found myself started with a “Big shock”, mainly from the CBL project and using blogger, which was a start for a series of a technology program. When I read this blog I felt as if I was a kid going to the school for his first time. He doesn't know what he has to do to be a good boy. He is suffering from his first home work and by it he took a bad feeling for the whole school and all the teachers :). When I read the second reflection I laughed a lot and remember myself when my friends talked about their teenagers’ students and I heard them as if I am in the wonder land. By the third reflection I knew that most of us are suffering in this course and not motivated. Actually this encourages me as I am not the only one :) I think Dr. Joy felt it; it was obvious in the 4th blog how we start to enjoy our sessions.

No comment on the 5th and 6th reflections. They were the most suffering time for me in this course, as I struggled to reach the course. I was very disappointed, but our supportive teacher asked me to look to the bright side and always be ready with plan B.

When we discussed the CBL projects in the 7th session, it was the first clue for the interior motivation :). I didn't think that I will have answers for questions like “What is the Egyptian education system gaining? What is the world gaining? “But the CBL project carried a lot of answers. I felt that a lot of doors and windows opened in front of me. In the CBL project presentation day, we weren't motivated to the course only but the whole diploma. We gain a lot of ideas and learned a lot of experience and techniques for motivations. We finalized our course with abnormal ending (skype) which let me think that I must always prepare plan B

Thanks Dr. Joy for all what we learned from you in motivation or as teachers. Thanks to all my colleagues. They are the best.