Reflective Comment on Course

As my first graduate course, ENGL C0853: Adult Learners of Language and Literacy was extremely enlightening. This course helped me paint an outline of higher education as it stands today, and as such, helped my imagine my future in the education field more clearly. As for the class assignments, I usually hate group projects, but the group projects in the class were actually fun and really helped with  my natural introversion. I began to really engage with my classmates in a way I've rarely done in any other college class I've ever taken. Listening to them speak during their presentations and working together on building presentations was a great experience, because I began to learn their personalities more and more. I also enjoyed blogging because it was reminiscent of my old teenage hobby: blogging on Livejournal. 

I’ve learned a great deal about adult learners, the higher education as a whole in this class. I find myself now, less than a week after the last class meeting, returning to  Brief Guide for Teaching Adult Learners  and finding Mike Rose’s Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing. Next week, I will be teaching a remedial writing class for the Veterans Upward Bound program at LaGuardia Community College. I’ve been reading these books and reviewing my class notes, and I’m attempting to incorporate what I’ve learned about adult learners into my syllabus. So, in that regard, this class is a perfect example of andragogy in that the content of the class relates directly to my life outside of the classroom, and I’m continuing to apply the knowledge gained in this class to my work.