I took Education 245 my second semester and it was a really helpful and informative class. It taught me what to look for in my students, so that I can make sure they are succeeding and progressing the best that they can. I now know how children grow and develop and I am well informed of the theories and theorists involving child development. In this class, we had to write a 10 page paper called the Three Ages Project, which also included a presentation on the paper at the end. For this assignment, we had to interview three children of different ages, each in a different stage of development, and then write a paper on our findings, about how the children are developing and relating their development to the different theorists we learned about over the course of the semester. This was probably the most challenging, but most helpful assignment in this class. Through this assignment I was able to apply what I had learned all year, and basically test myself on the material.

From this class I learned how to successfully carry out interviews, which I know I will most likely have to carry out in future college courses. I learned that you want to go in depth with the interview and receive as much as you can from the interview as possible. I also learned that when it comes to interviewing children you want to keep them as entertained, interested, and comfortable as possible, so that they will give you the best and most reliable responses possible. You do not want the children to feel pressured, you want it to be fun experience for them, so it may be a good idea, to include some games, or activities that they like within it. Learning this will likely be helpful in the future too, as it could better the conversations that I have with students, by making them feel more comfortable when carrying out discussions or one on one assessments with them, which I remember having in elementary school and being stressful. Overall, this class was extremely informative and fun to take, as the teacher kept it interesting and eye opening for our future classrooms.