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    Becoming A Learner

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    The document discusses how the author's perspective on their role as a student changed after reading Becoming a Learner. Initially, the author saw their purpose as obtaining an education degree to start their career, and viewed required core classes as unnecessary. However, after reading the book, the author now sees their purpose as becoming a lifelong learner. The author believes they can grow from any educational opportunity or activity, not just classes directly related to their future career. The author plans to approach core classes as opportunities to develop skills like critical thinking that will benefit them in many roles, and to share this philosophy of lifelong learning with their future students and children.

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    The document discusses how the author's perspective on their role as a student changed after reading Becoming a Learner. Initially, the author saw their purpose as obtaining an education degree to start their career, and viewed required core classes as unnecessary. However, after reading the book, the author now sees their purpose as becoming a lifelong learner. The author believes they can grow from any educational opportunity or activity, not just classes directly related to their future career. The author plans to approach core classes as opportunities to develop skills like critical thinking that will benefit them in many roles, and to share this philosophy of lifelong learning with their future students and children.

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    The document discusses how the author's perspective on their role as a student changed after reading Becoming a Learner. Initially, the author saw their purpose as obtaining an education degree to start their career, and viewed required core classes as unnecessary. However, after reading the book, the author now sees their purpose as becoming a lifelong learner. The author believes they can grow from any educational opportunity or activity, not just classes directly related to their future career. The author plans to approach core classes as opportunities to develop skills like critical thinking that will benefit them in many roles, and to share this philosophy of lifelong learning with their future students and children.

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    Becoming A Learner

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    Before reading Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education by

    Matthew Sanders, I perceived my personal role as a student in higher education to obtain


    an education degree in order to start my career. I was frustrated by all the time that I was
    compelled to attend this summer semester to relearn unneeded formulas in Beginning
    Algebra, write numerous unnecessary essays in English Composition and memorie
    useless information in !eneral "sychology as they are re#uired core classes in the
    Education Assistant "rogram. I $ust wanted to be able to begin the classes that truly
    mattered. Classes with interesting titles li%e& Individual Education "rograms, Effective
    'eaching, (evelop ) Adapt the Curriculum, Behavioral Intervention ) Classroom and
    similar ones that will prepare me to complete my $ob as a teacher*s assistant upon
    graduation.
    After reading this boo% I observe my purpose differently. My purpose is no longer
    to be a student attending community college for a few semesters in order to begin my life
    as a teacher*s assistant. My purpose is to truly begin to become a lifelong learner
    +although I have already begun that $ourney the day I was born,. -hen we are born, I
    believe we instantly begin learning through our everyday activities of daily life& eating,
    drin%ing, sleeping, etc. 'hrough each one these activities we are provided with the
    necessary s%ills that assist us to develop and grow for new bigger and greater activities.
    As an infant we never stop and consider, well I do not possibly understand how crawling
    will benefit my future, I am s%ipping this activity. -e begin to crawl therefore we can
    improve our balance and increase our muscles in our arms and legs, as a result we can
    begin to move towards the subse#uent activity, learning to wal%.
    'his fall semester I will stop the distracting conversation in which I perceive these
    re#uired core classes to be unnecessary and begin to view them as opportunities in which
    they hold for me as a learner and how I may grow from them. .or e/ample the formulas
    may be of no use to me, unless I teach an Algebra class, which is highly unli%ely0
    however, in my Intermediate Math class I can develop greater critical thin%ing and
    problem solving s%ills through learning these formulas and finding the solutions to the
    mathematical e#uations. 'hese s%ills that are genuinely beneficial to me as a student a
    learner, a woman, a wife, a mom, a teacher*s assistant and various other positions I may
    hold in the future.
    'his thought of becoming a learner does not stop at my own personal e/perience.
    I intend on applying it to my philosophy of teaching as well as parenting. I believe this is
    a necessary conversation to have with my children now as well as my future students,
    parents, and administration. I want to assist in preparing a child to see% out an education
    as a lifelong $ourney instead of a long, tedious list of re#uirements. I am than%ful to catch
    sight of this now in my $ourney, although could only imagine what developments could
    have come from this if learned several years before.

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