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        Reflection of First Semester Experience Miamo Lydie Department of Pedagogy, University of Warsaw M3 - Professional and Academic Discourse 2300-GPTE-M3-PAD: First-Year Writing Professor Małgorzata Matysik 15th February 2022       Reflection of First Semester Experience I am requested to write a reflection on my whole experience during my journey so far as a master’s student for the Graduate Program in Teaching English to Young Learners. While many of my classmates might not really know where to start, my own concern is where to end, because there is so much to write that I need to be diligent not to turn what is intended to be a simple reflection into a voluminous coursebook. Some classmates called me “teacher”, each time I told them about the number of pages I have written for most of our writing assignments. But I will try as much as possible to give the essential, a sort of final product, and preserve and spare the r...

  Informative Summaries 1)       Molly Wright: How every child can strive by five In her speech, seven-year old Molly Wright exhibits how simple games like peekaboo can go a long way to strengthen parent and kid relationship, and leave a long-lasting impact on children, capable of molding them into more successful future adults, and change the world. She evidences her assertions with a live demonstration which reveals the changing reaction of a young child during the moment the adult plays with him, and when the adult focusses on his work and doesn’t pay attention to him. Wright shows why and how spending more time with kids have valuable and permanent outcome on them.   2)       Kesia Mashik: Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection  In her presentation, Kesia Mashik demonstrates that we store information according to what we receive, and not how we receive it, in rejection of the existen...

            M1 - Developing teaching skills  2300-GPTE-M1-DTS: Reflection on Teaching Methods Miamo Lydie University of Warsaw 22 nd October 2021 Supervised by   Prof Malgorzagorzatar Matysik             REFLECTTION ON METHODS I have been teaching for the past 16 years as a private tutor and as a full-time class teacher, without any formal training as an educator, besides the 3 pedagogical regional seminars that my former Head Master registered me to with my colleagues. Today I am actually shocked and impressed to discover all the teaching techniques, methods, and approaches (I am yet to understand the differences between them) governing the educational field. In fact, if some employers go through my resume to assess if I qualify to teach in their schools just by checking my academic profile and seeing “Bachelor’s Degree in Law”, I will never or will hardly get the job. However, m...