1) When I felt most engaged in the
learning experience and why.
2) When I felt most distanced from the
learning experience and why.
3) What I learned about myself that can
be applied to my life and why.
4) How I judge my best work (criteria)
and why.
5) If I were to select the one single
thing that represents my best work in the course at this moment, it
would be .
6) Additional personal learning needs
that I have identified as a result of the learning experience and how
I will go about meeting them (personal learning strategies.)
At the beginning of
the semester, I was new to the field of HRD--Human Resource Development. In this class, not only
did I learn about HRD, but I also learned about teaching an intensive
class to adults.
1)When I felt most
engaged in the learning experience and why - I cannot single out one
day that I didn't feel engaged in this class. Perhaps that IS what
happens when three situations meet: A)the student (me) has decided to
learn the subject, B)the teacher is well prepared, loves the
subject—if she doesn't, she deserves an Academy Award—and makes
the subject easy to digest, and C)the classmates are supportive and
contribute a lot of real-life examples to what is discussed.
The class activities
were perhaps the most engaging moments of this class, not just the
discussion, but also the presentation of discussion results to the
rest of the class. Another moment in which I believe I felt more
engaged was when we had the 3-guest panel, because it looked like
they were having fun and felt comfortable talking about their job.
2)When I felt most
distanced from the learning experience and why – As mentioned
above, I cannot mention a moment in which I didn't feel engaged.
Perhaps the only time in which I felt I learned the least was while
reading “The New Protean Career,” (the first chapter of Hall, D.
T. (1996). The career is dead - long live the career: A relational
approach to careers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ), not because
the reading was bad, but because it made me uncomfortable to think
that the predictions of this article are today's reality. Jobs do not
last as long as they did before. This prompted in me a chain of
thoughts that made me lose focus by the end of the article.
3)What I learned
about myself that can be applied to my life and why – I can say
that with this class, I have learned a new vocabulary, an overview of
the history of Human Resource Development, and a better idea of how
organizations train their employees. I believe that as a result, I
will read job descriptions with a different mindset and will be able
to ask better questions when I interview for a job. Also, I am
seriously contemplating the idea of getting a master's degree, or at
least a certificate either in Adult Education or HRD in the future.
I also learned that
it is important to reflect after each class, because I wrote a few
blog posts during the semester and they have helped me a great deal
while writing this reflection. The reflection right after class and
the reflection after the semester ends are two different brain
activities, but both reflections are necessary to evaluate what we
have learned in the course. At this point I feel that what I'm
actually doing is a triple reflection, or a meta-reflection, which is
something I have not done in many other classes.
Another point I
learned about myself is that I do not completely follow ideas of
theory X or Y, and that it is alright.
4)How I judge my
best work (criteria) and why – The best work in a class is when the
work done is original and provides new ideas to other students about
a field. Since I was new to HRD, most of what I did in this class was
original to me, but if something is original to me and the class,
then it is worthy.
5)If I were to
select the one single thing that represents my best work in the
course at this moment, it would be – Perhaps my best work is the
field interview. I believe that I was very lucky to be able to talk
to Bob Huebner, because 1)I had to apply what I had read for class
and after the interview everything that did not make sense before
became clear; 2)because Mr. Huebner was very accessible and
enthusiastic about his job, and 3)his answers gave me a good
perspective of what a chief learning officer does. After this
interview, I feel confident to be able to talk to HRD and HR
professionals to learn from them. But more important, I feel that I
can do this type of job in the future.
6)Additional
personal learning needs that I have identified as a result of the
learning experience and how I will go about meeting them (personal
learning strategies.) – The first point I need to mention here is
that I need to learn more about social and group learning theory.
Most of my classmates knew already about this topic and I felt a
little jealous. The second one point is that if I take another Adult
Education class, I will keep a blog and add a post after each class,
and maybe add a post after every three classes or so, to have a
better perspective on what I learn.
I have taken three
classes in the Adult Education Department, and this was by far the
class where students participated the most and I felt more
comfortable making mistakes or talking about my own experience.
Thanks, Dr. Robin Hurst, for a great class.
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