This week in class
we had seven different online sources of reading material. I thought that the second reading “What is
college for?” by The New York Times included very useful information. The article can be found by clicking on the
following link: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/what-is-college-for/?_r=0 The article explains that, “A Pew Research survey this year found that seventy four percent of graduates from four-year colleges say that their education was ‘very
useful in helping them grow intellectually.’ Sixty-nine percent said that ‘it was
very useful in helping them grow and mature as a person’ and fifty five percent claimed
that ‘it was very useful in helping prepare them for a job or career.’” This quote is important because the research
found that college is useful for preparing young people for a future career and
becoming successful.
On the first day of Inquiry class, we wrote a paper on how to create a effective learning community and how students should be talkative and outgoing in the class. With a positive attitude, any student can learn. I always try to share my ideas, contribute my voice in class, speak clearly and help others who do not understand. In addition, I would personally bring willingness to learn. To be a great community, students should be willing to work together in effective ways, such as group projects and assignments. This class is an Inquiry class, so you have to think creatively. I can relate this back to the New York Times article because, “Students, in turn, need to recognize that their college education is above all a matter of opening themselves up to new dimensions of knowledge and understanding.” Students need to be willing to learn new things and apply this knowledge to their own life. Also, “Teaching is not a matter of (as we too often say) ‘making a subject (poetry, physics, philosophy) interesting’ to students but of students coming to see how such subjects are intrinsically interesting.” As a college student, it is vital that I understand the material and have the motivation to learn and complete all of my assignments.
Overall, “Good teaching does not make a course’s subject more interesting; it gives the students more interests — and so makes them more interesting.” After college, a student learns a great deal and are able to effectively communicate about a variety of subjects and complete many tasks because of their completed coursework and specialization in a certain major.
On the first day of Inquiry class, we wrote a paper on how to create a effective learning community and how students should be talkative and outgoing in the class. With a positive attitude, any student can learn. I always try to share my ideas, contribute my voice in class, speak clearly and help others who do not understand. In addition, I would personally bring willingness to learn. To be a great community, students should be willing to work together in effective ways, such as group projects and assignments. This class is an Inquiry class, so you have to think creatively. I can relate this back to the New York Times article because, “Students, in turn, need to recognize that their college education is above all a matter of opening themselves up to new dimensions of knowledge and understanding.” Students need to be willing to learn new things and apply this knowledge to their own life. Also, “Teaching is not a matter of (as we too often say) ‘making a subject (poetry, physics, philosophy) interesting’ to students but of students coming to see how such subjects are intrinsically interesting.” As a college student, it is vital that I understand the material and have the motivation to learn and complete all of my assignments.
Overall, “Good teaching does not make a course’s subject more interesting; it gives the students more interests — and so makes them more interesting.” After college, a student learns a great deal and are able to effectively communicate about a variety of subjects and complete many tasks because of their completed coursework and specialization in a certain major.
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