Blog 8: Final Reflection
Our essential question was: How can one foster a positive learning environment for language education? Our initial project design objectives were strong and stayed present throughout our experience. Our objectives were that we wanted to learn how to assemble lessons for younger students, how to support mentees, and refresh my foundations in the French language. They were fairly achievable and I am happy to say that I feel we did achieve most of them. Our mentorship with Mr. Nyborg was solid, and I could reach out to him in the future if I wanted to reconnect with him for career purposes. Though, I feel there might have been some times in which I was doing something beyond my abilities as a teaching assistant such as writing the course description for final comments. It was really interesting to be able to get a glimpse behind the scenes and see how grading works at the school, but I had only been there for about two weeks and did not have a gauge on what they had been learning all year...