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My Goals & What I’ve Learned

One job I would like to have after graduation is teaching English abroad. The world is just a big place, and to only be defined to the cultural aspects of the English-speaking world. Traveling and seeing the world is something I have always wanted to do in my life. I am currently doing a dual-major in Linguistics and Spanish, with two concentrations in French and Japanese. With these languages under my belt, I am able to open many doors in the teaching profession, the translating/interpreting job field; there is an endless array of possibilities. 

One of the most important concepts that I have learned in this course to help me with my future career is, in Module 1, is Assumption 4: Interpersonal Communication is an interdependent process. To be able to fully understand and be able to help others understand, you need to understand that communicating is not just a one person job. If a teacher wants to be a good teacher, they need to talk with the students and understand what helps them and what doesn’t. Every year, students change and teaching styles change as we continue to evolve. Students ask questions, the teacher answers them. As a teacher, the main goal should always be to make sure that your students understand the material that is being taught, and by understanding communications tactics and how to properly communicate with others can only breed success. 

From Module 3, I will talking about one of the topics I had issues with understanding, as I listed back a few months ago in my discussion question; I don’t believe I have ever been able to come to fully understand what is cognitive schemata and cognitive complexity; but from what I have been able to understand from the lectures, I believe it could be perhaps one of the most important concepts to understand as a teacher. From my Discussion Question, I proposed the question, “From Lecture 3.2, I am really struggling to understand Cognitive Schemata. The lecture says it is the human ability to access knowledge. Is it really as simple as that? If it is, is cognitive schemata just my ability to access the internet to search for information, ask a professor questions? Or am I way off?”. There are no hidden messages in the lecture. It is simply the truth in how it is read. If Cognitive Schemata is based on the human’s ability to access knowledge, one has to begin to understand the different ways of life, different cultures, and that humans are extremely diverse creatures. In a third-world country, it can be significantly harder for children, and lower-class individuals, to obtain a high-quality education. This could easily tie into cognitive schemata; these are forces that are outside of one’s control, but they are actual problems. I have friends from around the world; in many of these countries, my friends do not have native language teachers. Here, I have had Mexican Spanish teachers, Colombian Spanish teachers; a whole mix and wide array; however, my friends overseas, a lot of them have never even talked with a native speaker! How crazy is that to think about? Another way to interpret this concept is that not every human has the same capacity of knowledge as another. What I mean by this is, take a look at our university. We have over 50+ majors, and over 20,000 students who study a wide variety of topics and subjects daily. As humans, we find what we are good at, what we love, and we make it work. Tying this into the idea of cognitive schemata, how this mindset has been defined; if you are able to understand this as a teacher, you are able better to understand your students and be able to help them in tailored ways to their own abilities and cognitive schemata. How could you say you couldn’t? It is a very basic definition that continues to be expanded on with these ideas. Next, from Module 3, I will have to talk about cognitive complexity. In these lectures (3.2) themselves, it even states that “the examples given are arbitrary and that every person’s schemata are unique.” As a teacher, this is SO important to understand. Not everyone can process the same information as everyone else; my own experience is my knowledge in the foreign language field. It comes naturally to me; whereas to others, they can spend hours studying and will not be able to grasp the concept. I could say I have a high cognitive schemata (in foreign languages, at least). Cognitive Complexity is not universal; it has the tendency to make itself specific towards a certain issue and it is not related with one’s intelligence. Cognitive complexity helps people understand what is and isn’t appropriate in social situations; through contextual visualization; meanwhile, it also helps and ties into the examples of understanding different life perspectives as well as one’s own ability to adapt. This can tie into all of the above examples on why it is important to understand this as a teacher; you are teaching a subject. It is education and by understanding that everyone owns learning capabilities and each person is different based on how they were raised, in which environment they were raised. Languages themselves tend to form themselves and are more than just a means of communication; they represent culture and even up until a whole society. Language defines people and who we are and what we like. By understanding these differences are extremely prevalent abroad, you can reduce your culture shock and be even a better teacher by adapting better to your environment through cognitive complexity. (You did your research and know what to expect.) 

Conflict Styles (Must discuss/compare at least two of the styles discussed in the chapter

Another important thing to understand, from Module 7, are conflict styles. Right now, I am 20 years old. I am on set to graduate when I turn 21. How long will I teach? Who knows? But even just as I have lived through these twenty years already, I have experienced students who don’t know how to behave in a classroom, students who are disrespectful; my own peers. Of course, this has always depended on the teacher and if they tolerated it. I think a teacher who would be able to understand conflict styles could be a great teacher. Not everyone is gonna like you, even students will hate you simply because you are a teacher. By understanding conflict styles, you are able to diffuse a situation and get to the route of the issue before it continues to affect your class. By tackling the conflict head-on, I believe that is the best way; because there WILL be conflicts in a classroom, no matter how hard you try to avoid them. time to take a look a the lecturers why did i do everything last minute this sesmeste rjklmngklsdnasjklm. There are a few ways using the conflict styles that we discussed in the lectures that I could go about handling a trouble classroom or a troubling student. I believe the worst way to confront any of this behavior is avoidance. By avoiding issues, they only manifest themselves and continue to grow. I believe the best way to handle a troublesome situation would be through compromise or collaboration. By doing this, reflecting back on my student days because I was a student, it was stressful because it always felt like the teacher never listened to us or asked for our feedback. I think when a teacher engages and actually wants to help the students. Say, if we finish all this work in class today, I won’t give us homework for tonight. I think through simple compromises like these, or even collaboration, such as, how long should our homework be? It helps the student feel appreciated and that their voice was heard.

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