This essay I am going to write is about doing a reflection of the first week of school. I would like to start the reflection with asking myself the question: what is it that I want to learn from this first week? I have decided to answer this question by putting my expectations and learning goals on paper.
Expectations:
What I expect from the first week is to arrive in a sort of flow which will help me through the next coming periods. With this I mean that because of the first week I can sort of see how the programme is and from there on out I can plan effectively and oversee how to do this in the future as well.
Learning goals:
My learning goals for the starting week are to be able to understand everything that I have to do and be able to use all the information given in the classes that I had during the week.
Looking back on all the classes I had and the time spent the previous week I can honestly say that my expectations were successfully exceeded. I have learned from this week that it is all about planning. Till so far I think I have spent my time doing valuable things in order to get all my work done. I think that this is a good start to become into the flow of learning again. In my spare time I am also most of the time busy with doing something for school. I am very happy that I have learned how to put this in my daily routine because I have the opinion that it will help me through the year.
During the years before I chose to go back to school I worked in the hospitality service. This meant a lot of irregular hours which were very difficult to adapt from. During this week I think I managed to be able to forget that and actually learned how be able to create regular hours again.
My learning goal for the week went off on a good start as well I think. To be able to understand everything I had to pay proper attention in class and to actually participate in class as well. I think that this was one of the things I did the best during the week. On my opinion I was very participant in class by asking and answering questions, with doing all assignments in class that were handed to us and to take notes in order to remember everything that was taught in class.
By paying attention and participating in class I was able to use all the information given during the lessons in my homework assignments. I think that I really was able to use all the information very effectively and successfully because at most of the assignments I had to do I did not have any problem by putting the information that I received in to use.
As a conclusion of my first week can easily say that I exceeded my expectations and focused really on my learning goals and actually learned the goals I had set for myself. In the future I think I can use this reflection to see how far I have gotten from this point out and whether I am making progress from this point out.