Week 6: Reflecting one’s own work

Having much task so far raised the attention whether the given work to us achieved their goals or otherwise. In respective, the sixth class revolved around the idea of evaluating or reflecting back on the completion of assignments and tasks that were instructed to us, particularly to address any issues, problems we have faced before, during and after the process of doing it. I felt it was not only a good idea to look back at one’s own work and also of others as it was the time for sharing experiences, reviewing the skills mastered, the ups and downs one has to go through, but also important as to provide an overview of feedback necessary for the facilitators to analyze and think upon, in hopes that there is always room for improvements. This would surely not only increase their teaching efficiency but also help them to understand our needs and difficulties better and for making appropriate adjustments when the time comes for our juniors to be their students.

The discussion were concerned about the applications the facilitators provided, or whether they were of any benefit to helping us complete the task such as the tutorials, converting, hardware manipulation and so forth. Of course, I believe that the process of completing one’s task is as important as its product. Thus, it is crucial to gain in depth insight and understanding of the situation so as to avoid us from repeating the same mistakes on other assignments in the future. We also touched about the soft skills that we have acquired along the way such as teamwork, leadership, tolerance and so forth. Each skill plays an important aspect of molding us one step closer to the ideal teacher personality.

As a result, this post mortem period made me realize that in order to become good teachers, one must learn from their past, listen to other’s opinions, address their needs and be flexible to make immediate changes to our initial plans to suit the ever changing demands. This was all in the effort of making sure that we would plan ahead and hopefully can direct the flow or learning experiences in the favor of our future learners.