Indelible moment: Recent Episodes
Derek
When it comes to indelible moments in my academic career, This is the one that stands out the most vividly
I enjoyed many of the Moth stories but there was one that stuck out and fit in nicely with my indelible audio moment I chose for my podcast. While I did learn from the lesson behind the podcast, I also feel I benefited from hearing her presentation. Her upbeat energy was engaging and memorable as I want my instruction to be as a teacher. Throughout our storytelling process, I have learned what I now think to be critically important aspects of education as a student, writer, and future educator. As a student, through the process of writing I have to really review and rethink about all the information that we learned about in their respective sections allowing me to more thoroughly understand it. The process of reviewing it not only help the information resonate but in order to correctly use it to write I had to have a more thorough comprehension of the material. As a writer, if push me to expand my vocabulary in effort to bring the reader into the story. In order to use vivid, detailed descriptions as I tried to “show, don’t tell” I was challenged to both use correct punctuation and grammar while also using a slightly higher level of vocabulary. As a future educator, I now see the all the benefits that engaging students in the storytelling writing process has for them as both students and writers. I will now be mindful and try to implement similar activities in my instruction as a teacher. I did have trouble narrowing down the indelible moment I wanted to discuss an exploration task eight. As I felt there were many moments throughout field that I learned something worth writing about. And some might think this doesn’t sound like much of an important moment but as I said in my podcast, I would hate to become known as “that teacher”.Indelible field moment
When I initially approached the idea of my own personal indelible moment and after watching several of the Moth videos, I was first inspired by those young students courage in being able to stand up in front of a crowd and discuss some of their innermost personal feelings and stories with strangers. As I know, many of you reading this are not strangers to me, my indelible moment includes some personal feelings and issues that I typically would not share so these videos influenced me by motivating me to reveal personal information. During the process of my reflection, I discovered that as a student I generally tend to apply a great deal of pressure on myself. As I begin to apply more pressure and become increasingly stressed, this seems to affect my ability to focus and make progress in the assignment or task I am trying to complete. As I began to replay this moment over and over in my mind in order to put it on paper, I discovered how much this memory still resonates with me as I was able to articulate it in surprising detail as I describe my emotions. So much so that I had to limit how in-depth I went as to save space. Because of this and how distinct the memory is in my head, brainstorming was not an issue. The only challenges I faced was when I attempted to record a podcast episode. Let’s just say I will never be confused for a technological genius.