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Throughout this class I have built a sense of community with other classmates especially have grown to understand different mindsets of others throughout our times in the zoom meetings. I found and learned new understanding to what a schema is and how to apply it to my own teachings with my future classroom and students. Especially how understanding the importance of creating a respectful environment can lead students to be open minded and discuss numerous open-ended questions, and topics in a Socratic seminar. This online class has taught me the importance of implementing my own teaching styles especially with making and doing research with my inquiry project.

In the inquiry project I got to do research about how graphic novels can be implemented with developmental skills in a students learning. I found that graphic novels can be used to develop skills such as general reading comprehension, visual learning skills, and building new vocabulary skills when practicing reading and creative writing. Just learning and doing research on how to engage in the efficiency and effectiveness of graphic novels created a path for me to put that into my literacy teachings when I teach my future class.

What I'm most going to be taking away from this class is that everyone uses schemas to express their own interpretation of a summary, text, or thoughts of a story. That understanding the value having different opinions is important in a students learning process. That its fine to debate and interpret literature different. I found that in the video with Jaquez and Nelson, it really brought insight of what a Socratic seminar looks like in a classroom discussion. In a way students become more confident when they share their own ideas. I want my future class to express themselves and learn through others and have different perspective on things. This is what I imagine my future class to be like.

Overall, this class has taught me about my own growing mindset and how I want to incorporate graphic novels into my teachings in the future.

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Karissa's Portfolio - Final Course Reflection

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Final Course Reflection Throughout this class I have built a sense of community with other classmates especially have grown to understand different mindsets of others throughout our times in the zoom meetings.

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This class has been definitely one of the best classes I have had so far at the University of New Mexico. There are several reasons for this, some of them are the way the class was, my classmates were all great students and there was always an amazing environment in our class zoom meetings, but the most important reason of why this class was the best so far at least for me, is because of the instructor we had. She is an amazing teacher that cares a lot for her students and is there for them at any moment. This kind of teachers are the reason of why I want to become a teacher as well.

This class has helped me a lot to create new reading skills for my understanding. Some of those skills are schemas and visualization. I have realized that using schemas in class or when reading something can help students understand in a better way the concept of what the instructor is trying to say. The way visualization has helped me is by helping me create images when I am reading something to have a clearer image of what the book or article is talking about.

The most important strategy that I have found interesting in the class, that I will definitely use in my future teaching is the Socratic seminar. The Socratic seminar is a great way of having a group discussion with the entire class in a respectful and peaceful way, were all students are listening to their classmates' questions that they have created after reading something, and at the end having a respectful discussion of their findings.

The project/assignment that I have enjoyed the most is definitely the think aloud project. It is a unique way of understanding a piece of art, reading, or anything that you can see and at the same time expressed out loud whatever you are thinking at the moment of that specific thing.

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FINAL REFLECTION This class has been definitely one of the best classes I have had so far at the University of New Mexico.

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Sara Canche Sergio Canez David Chiotti Maria Gigliotti Selena Griego Anastasia Habiger-Doxon Olivia Harlow Marley Hidalgo Jay Hobson Nathaniel Kenny

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Joseph Arellano Estefany Arevalo Austin Consla Becky Ferris Anastasia Habiger-Doxon Hannah Labastida Arthur Lopez Santana Pohl Alondra Ramos Ximena Soto Clay Thomas Emma Tiegens Sarah Waugh

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Rebecca Caabay Wendy Carson Kathryn Chavez Diaz Rose Collins Martha Diaz Faye Gibson

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Joseph Arellano Estefany Arevalo Austin Consla Becky Ferris Anastasia Habiger-Doxon Hannah Labastida Arthur Lopez Santana Pohl Alondra Ramos Ximena Soto Clay Thomas Emma Tiegens Sarah Waugh

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My name is Emily Zamudio and I currently work in the enrollment services at CNM. I am working towards my Bachelor's Degree at UNM in Secondary Education with a concentration in Spanish. I come from a small town in Veracruz, Mexico where I lived the majority of my childhood. I grew up playing, learning, and socializing with family and peers. Although I am still developing my teaching philosophy I believe that learning should be fun, engaging, and relatable.
As a Spanish speaker and ESL student, I understand what this diverse student population needs and what is more beneficial to their learning.

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My name is Emily Zamudio and I currently work in the enrollment services at CNM. I am working towards my Bachelor's Degree at UNM in Secondary Education with a concentration in Spanish. I come from a small town in Veracruz, Mexico where I lived the majority of my childhood.

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Students highlight their work from the semester in their portfolios

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In this course, I have learned so much about the flexibility of a classroom, the importance of understanding text complexity, and the role of a teacher in the classroom. The two assignments that stood out and stuck with me the most is the passion project, and the activities we did in the beginning of the semester on schemas. Both of these assignments provided me with those lightbulb/aha moments. The activities we did on schemas stuck with me so much because it was so intriguing to see how our prior knowledge filled in the blanks, and the blanks ended up being something totally different! It was such a fun and interesting way to point out one simple fact; we all develop schemas in different ways based on our different personal experiences in life. This was such a fun activity that I even imagined doing with my future high school students to show them that perspective depends on who YOU are. I loved the passion project because of how much freedom was in it. I was able to freely look at di...

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In this course, I have learned so much about the flexibility of a classroom, the importance of understanding text complexity, and the role of a teacher in the classroom. The two assignments that stood out and stuck with me the most is the passion project, and the activities we did in the beginning of the semester on schemas.

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EDUC 438* SUMMER 2019 - Portfolios Summer 2019

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EDUC 438* Summer 2018