Honors Human Growth and Development was a course that really challenged me academically in terms of research and time management. This class did not shy away from textbook readings and often there was a chapter due each day the class met on Tuesdays and Thursdays with supplemental readings to carry on the main idea from the textbook. At times I struggled to balance my readings with my other classes, but the discussions we did in class wee set along the textbook guidelines and allowed me to reiterate what I quickly read the night before. The professor was also very nice as she always accepted questions and went over any topic in great detail if someone said they did not understand it. Also, she led many review games and activities to ensure we memorized important concepts we would need to know for further education classes.

In this class we did a lot of research-based projects that were entirely done outside of the classroom. We were challenged with finding credible sources and works to provide a basis for the topic we were researching. These were some of the most fun projects despite being so much work as I got to learn a lot about topics related to education that I was interested in learning more about.

The artifact I chose for this class was a research paper I did on bilingual education. My professor let us choose whatever topic we wanted as long as it somehow related to education, so I explored a topic I always wanted to look further into and that was bilingualism in the classroom. I made many discoveries as to how bilingual education is starting to spread in America as its population continues to diversify and how it has many cognitive benefits. Also, I enjoyed being able to share my knowledge with the class as we had to give a five to ten minute presentation to the class about our findings, so I got to see what interested my classmates as well as share my fascination with bilingual education.