Right lets get started: The essay question for this is ............ (drum role pleaseeee)
'To what extent has the module 'Becoming an Educationalist' prepared you for the reality of becoming an educationalist? Justify your answer with reference to at least three aspects of or activities on the course.'
Riiiiight! So to begin I will upload below my very handy notes that I did for this which will hopefully help me pass ;)
WARNING BRIGHT BRAINSTORM BELOW!!!!! haha
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| My Rough notes |
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| My VERY VERY BRIGHT handy brainstorm |
These notes are what I accumulated during the lecture which enabled me to break everything down and almost make more questions of the 'big essay question'. at first i was confused as to why we was making more questions for the question but then i understood it was so that we get our brains active and use these broken down questions to answer the essay.
From a previous weeks lecture and seminar i was taught to make my brainstorm look bright and colourful hence the reason why the brainstorm above is extremely colourful (hope i don't hurt you eyes guys). It actually helped me because it made me want to look more at the notes i had made. Usually i don't go back on notes i just read the assignment guide on weblearn. However this really helped me out and it made things easier.
I wasn't able to get pictures of the notes from the board because my phone died (story of my life) but what we did was as a group we all made and added to the notes Sandra had been writing down. The notes consisted of issues that individual people in the class had so for example my issue was this essay informal or formal? all these questions were being answered and slowly the class and i began understanding the question which was great.
As the class went on many students had questions about issues they had on academic language and we were all introduced to a really good website which is http://www.phrasebank.manchester.as.uk. This website is also on the becoming an educationalist blog http://becomingeducational.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/w22-becomingeducational-the-essay-our-essay/. This really helps with assignments as some of my class members had used it already for a previous assignment. It has headings of what your looking for eg 'Being Critical' it has a lot of content which can help, so go check it out guys!
Unfortunately I had to miss the seminar because I had to go to the doctors (personal reasons LOL) but I did go on and check the class blog and I was able to catch up which is great.
That will be all for today!
Thanks for reading xx
