Reflection 5

This week I went and observed at my former high school, Springville High School. We were supposed visit Mr. Boss but he didn't have a class first period so we went over to Mr. Bell's class. Mr. Bell was actually my Multimedia teacher in high school and was not a very good teacher. He got along with most of the kids, particularly the ones he could make fun of, but he didn't really teach. He just gave assignments and let us go to work. He was never organized and frequently lost the assignments that we would turn in. it was interesting to revisit his class and see that he still did everything the same even if it hadn't been effective years before. This made Mr. Boss seem very professional and very on top of things. Mr. Boss had brand new equipment and had a vision of where he wanted to be. What he's teaching is actually exactly what I want to teach when I graduate. He teaches video production, Tv, and photography. He told us of how he planned to get the students involved in student film festivals and other activities, as well as broadcast the various sporting events and activities happening in the school. I think those are some really good ways to get students involved in what they're learning because they would actually be doing projects that mattered to them, their peers, and to their entire community. I personally feel like that is what learning is about. We need to learn things in order to give back to and thus better the source that are learning comes from whether that's the community, family, friends, the world, or anything else. High School students should be learning to improve their personal future, while using their knowledge to give back to their community and school.