It is hard to remember all teachers during my educational history, while I still remember some teachers whom I am impressed by. Well, I am so surprised that there are not many negative aspects in my visual lineage when I review it again. Originally, I predicted that I would recall much negative experience about teachers because I think people prefer to remember some bad teachers. However, the result is tangible, my first grade Math teacher and eighth grade Math teacher played significant roles in my past memories of school life. . Well, I realized that they were both math teachers and furthermore realized that Math is a very difficult subject for most students.
Again, I chose to make a video to display my educational history since I think it is easier for me to create a video rather than creating a sculpture. When I was thinking about the lineage tree, my initial decision was drawing a big tree with teachers’ pictures attached. Well, it is too difficult to find those teachers’ pictures, so I then tried to draw their faces instead. Later, I thought I am not a tree yet, instead I am a sapling which means I am still growing and I need to be educated more and more. Then I used a video editing software AFTER EFFECT to create s sapling with the drawing pictures attached. I think it is challenging to draw the teachers and recall something impressive since I am not good at drawing. So I added their words which was inspiring and enlightening to me at the important moment. Time flies, and I believe that I grow up every day while I grow up faster than before since I am taking reflective teaching course. As I review my reflections ( 90 pages wow too many!), I've got many wonderful responses from peers. Based on their ideas, I add some teachers that I think have good effects on me. Certainly, I added some teachers that I shared in my reflections which were related to some readings that we've read. According to these images, some are created in my fibers class which are wet felting, while some are pictures which I could find in my photo albums. The reason why I add Carol, my former colleague at CI, is her teaching style that affected me a lot, even now I still remember her teaching philosophy. Thanks for Becky's advice, so that I can realize that Carol is also my "teacher" in my educational lineage. I should say thank you to my writing teacher Frances, a retired professor from Mizzou, who helps me grammar, edit the writing stuff. She is very patient and nice, and definitely she teaches me many rules of grammars and writings. Those are practical and useful. Last, I added my boyfriend as my teacher because he plays a vital part in my graduate life. Though he is not my real teacher in a real classroom, he is my life teacher. He helps me how to handle with the graduate study stuff which are complicated sometimes. Moreover, he is a great and patient listener who can listen to me when I complain about the life and study. Most importantly, he leads me to grow up and certainly he is an observer during my process of growing up. There is a Chinese proverb goes, "it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred to rear people" which means it takes a long time to cultivate talents. My sapling is still on the way to grow up, and I hope it can be a big tree in the future.
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