The Final Post

 Hi all!

As the term comes to a close, I'm going to have to say goodbye to posting here. It's been quite a year with the course, with all the various tasks I did, but I'm afraid this will be my last post here. Before I leave, there are a couple questions I'll be answering about my time with this course, which you can find below. Hope you enjoyed following along with my blog. 

Take care!

1- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the course?

All the various materials we had to do made me feel like I was doing actual teacher work, which I was doing to an extent, and I really enjoyed that. On the other hands, there were a lot of times where I felt overwhelmed with the assignments, sometimes due to their sheer size or sometimes due to the time frame I had to complete them in but honestly, I couldn't tell you if that was a course-weakness or a Pol-weakness. Overall, I can confidently say that I have become a better teacher because of this course.

2- What did you find easy or difficult about the course?

Figuring out what to do was always the most difficult part of every assignment for me. A lot of times it was difficult for me to get started, not knowing which parts I should tackle first, what topic/unit to focus on etc. However, thanks in large part to excellent feedback our instructor gave us every time, I found myself steadily getting better at handling those issues.

3- What was your most and least favourite task? Explain your choices.

My favorite has to be the video we created for a Flipped Classroom material. As I said even in the title of the blog post for that assignment, it was extremely fun creating the video with my friends. I'd say my least favorite would be the corpus-based material that we did. The early parts of the assignment where we had to figure out our topic, do our research and come up with examples felt really tedious. The later part of the assignment where we put everything together on Canva was still very fun, however.

4- What would be your suggestion to improve it?

I think only slightly revising the tasks would be enough to make this a lot of people's favorite course.

5- What would you tell to the students who would take this course next year?

I'd tell them to pay more attention in the classroom than I did, and to manage their time better doing the assignments. There have been several times where I felt burnt out or had to sacrifice from the quality of an assignment simply because I didn't have enough time.

6- How would this course contribute to your professional development?

With every assignment we had I felt like a teacher creating activities and materials that I myself would really enjoy if I were a student. Everything we did helped me become better at creating fun and beneficial materials for my future students. I'm sure these will play a very important role in my future career. 

I was thinking while writing this, I will be taking another class next year that I didn't take when I was supposed to, so I might come back to this blog after all...