My Reflections for week 1 Postings

My week was very stressful as begun the journey in my Walden University academic studies. The course commenced on Monday 31^st August 2015 a day when I was traveling back home from an official trip from Maputo Mozambique where I had gone to attend a regional conference on the need to have quality teachers in our schools for the quality learning of pupils and latter for the effective nations development.

I entered my Blackboard classroom a day late and this pressed on a lot of anxieties such that my performance in both thoughtful posting and quality of work submitted was affected in that it had a lot of missing letter and in some cases word and wrong spellings. Nevertheless, I tried to cope up with work though in a challenging manner. What helped me to move on was the fact that I quickly drew insights from the positing made by my colleagues and composed what I was expected to do.

In this week’s tasks I came learn from colleagues that some of them have a wide experience in the field of working with children aged 0 to 6 the age group I am pursuing my course and this gave encouragements to press on even when at times the journey seemed frustrating. The willingness to help posted in the colleagues posting and the manner in which the posted their comments gave me further determination to work on the tasks. One such posting was made by Breda OHalloran, in her posting I was able to gain insight on how to develop my blog when I was almost giving up.

I should submit here that my week’s tasks were made in a haste manner without proofreading the work as compared to what my colleagues submitted. To this effect, I have discovered that getting acquainted with colleagues work and posting will provide good guidance in my future task and that I should be committed to participating with may group members in the course work in order to support each other progress smoothly. There shouldn’t be individuality and isolation at all.  Peer couching is key and crucial just as it is indicated in social cognitive learning theory written by Woolfork (2004) in Munsaka (2011, P 25), “learners are likely to model people who are attractive, popular and competent” and for this reason, I feel there will be more of learning from each other than self if we are to grow academically and professionally because the group is quiet diversity in each one’s background.

Reference

Munsaka, E (2011). Mastering the Psychology of Teaching and Learning: Lusaka: University of Zambia Press.