REFLECTION

As a student, when I come to Cyprus before, I did not know how to be succesful and I had worries about being succesful at student selection exam (YGS-LYS) because I was not a hard-working student. Actually I had game addiction in these years with my friends, so I never study at home. My parents tried to blocked this my harmful addiction. My father closed to our modem(internet) when I’m the last class in high school and He send me to go dershane ( Private schools in Turkey just weekends for student selection exam). After that, my exam points were very low at the begining of these special class. But I decided to get good points and hardworking to be succesful and class up in this dershane. When we were young, we don’t know some important things because we don’t realize this exam affects our future! I’m so happy to get good points for this exam, and thanks my family. I am always talented and smart person but My father always said to me : “YOU DON’T USE YOUR ABILITIES AND BRAIN, YOU ARE VERY SMART STUDENT THAN OTHERS”. For nature; I had mathematical, computer, and visual memorization abilities, but if my parents didn’t help me, I would never use my abilities. To nurture; My family and my succesful friends are affected my succes to come METU NCC. When I will be a teacher, I hope that my students will be succesful, by using both nature and nurture. Because I had very talented and smart friends but they never be succesful because of not having nurture, ( environment). They had bad friends. I know and believe importance of environment, friends and personal skills. Teachers should be care of both nurture and nature to be success.

REFLECTION

When I was in high school, I don’t have any teacher who used student centered method. Actually our teachers never tell objectives or interested in goals, We have some topics in book, so they came and did somethings every lesson and never say that “YOU UNDERSTAND? “ “WE ARE SO FAST?” or something like that. We never solve examples in physics or math class, so we never be good at these lessons. It should be use some student-centered methods. Also our english teacher didn’t know how to speak english. How can be succesful in these conditions in high school?

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