Goal Statement Reflection
As Katherine Anne Porter puts it,"The past is never where you think you left it". Sometimes in life, we are told never to look back but I believe looking back will always pave the way forward when you learn and correct your mistakes along the way. The journey through the MAET program was not a crystal staircase for me. Sometimes I felt like I was not meeting my goals partly because I am an information technologist and not a full-time teacher but my quest for teaching never wavered.
Looking back at what I wrote in 2011 and how long it took me to come to this end is quite captivating. Things have changed over time: a new member of my family, a home and everything else in between. My thoughts and feelings were that I could not reach at this point. Since completing my undergrad in 2003, the decision to return to school was a very difficult one for me. Nevertheless, this undertaking was generally influenced by my mother who was a great Nursing Professor at Centennial College and partly because of the numerous hours spent in her office and around classrooms with her and the admiration of her profession, brought me to the final decision of wanting to be a teacher.
When I applied to the MAET program in 2011, I wrote about my interest in educational technology and teaching in this technological evolution. As I navigate through the MAET program, my way of thinking about teaching totally changed. That change brought me to the understanding that teaching is student-centered activities that must be directed toward helping the students acquire knowledge through the process of inquiry and intellectual empowerment. I believe that the best way to make students learn anything especially Information Technology is to make him/her part of the inquiry process through direct engagement/hands-on and the MAET program was no exception. I enjoyed the many courses and themes: Research, dealing with students with disabilities, classroom technologies, different experience with course managements systems especially for online teaching and learning.
As mentioned in my goal statement that after a few years in the workforce, I began to consider returning to school and contemplating what to pursue. I knew that my greatest job satisfaction always came from my role as a tutor or instructor. My enthusiasm for teaching in a classroom or online never wavered". Today, I stand truth to that aspiration that when I complete the program this summer, I will be working part-time in the Information technology Department working directly with distance learning faculty at my college and teaching few more computer programming courses for the other half of my time. I have learned a lot more from the day I started the very first class to the end which is in sight. It was worth looking back to what I said I would like to be and I am very optimistic that the path through my journey through this MAET program was worth taken.
As Katherine Anne Porter puts it,"The past is never where you think you left it". Sometimes in life, we are told never to look back but I believe looking back will always pave the way forward when you learn and correct your mistakes along the way. The journey through the MAET program was not a crystal staircase for me. Sometimes I felt like I was not meeting my goals partly because I am an information technologist and not a full-time teacher but my quest for teaching never wavered.
Looking back at what I wrote in 2011 and how long it took me to come to this end is quite captivating. Things have changed over time: a new member of my family, a home and everything else in between. My thoughts and feelings were that I could not reach at this point. Since completing my undergrad in 2003, the decision to return to school was a very difficult one for me. Nevertheless, this undertaking was generally influenced by my mother who was a great Nursing Professor at Centennial College and partly because of the numerous hours spent in her office and around classrooms with her and the admiration of her profession, brought me to the final decision of wanting to be a teacher.
When I applied to the MAET program in 2011, I wrote about my interest in educational technology and teaching in this technological evolution. As I navigate through the MAET program, my way of thinking about teaching totally changed. That change brought me to the understanding that teaching is student-centered activities that must be directed toward helping the students acquire knowledge through the process of inquiry and intellectual empowerment. I believe that the best way to make students learn anything especially Information Technology is to make him/her part of the inquiry process through direct engagement/hands-on and the MAET program was no exception. I enjoyed the many courses and themes: Research, dealing with students with disabilities, classroom technologies, different experience with course managements systems especially for online teaching and learning.
As mentioned in my goal statement that after a few years in the workforce, I began to consider returning to school and contemplating what to pursue. I knew that my greatest job satisfaction always came from my role as a tutor or instructor. My enthusiasm for teaching in a classroom or online never wavered". Today, I stand truth to that aspiration that when I complete the program this summer, I will be working part-time in the Information technology Department working directly with distance learning faculty at my college and teaching few more computer programming courses for the other half of my time. I have learned a lot more from the day I started the very first class to the end which is in sight. It was worth looking back to what I said I would like to be and I am very optimistic that the path through my journey through this MAET program was worth taken.