Halfway+Through+the+Educational+Leadership+Program

How I feel being halfway through the program...
August 2011 I just finished my Social Justice course. This was a very interesting course to take. It made me realize how many different groups are fighting for social justice (not just groups you may think). I particularly enjoyed current events shared as well as the rich discussion that took place within the classroom. The final project for this course was a unit that I collaborated with a classmate to create. We decided to use our unit as professional development piece to incorporate with our staffs relating to ELL needs and library book selection relating to this group of students.

October 2011 I am currently taking the research course. I just finished my proposal and began collecting data. This course has made me realize how detailed a proposal needs to be. This is definitely the course I feel least confident in, but have began to feel less overwhelmed by all the details and pieces that are involved with research. Now that my proposal is completed I am excited for the data collection piece. I am curious to find out what the results will be once I have collected all the data.

December 2011 I just finished my research course. This was by far the most challenging course I have taken. During this course I realized how much time, planning, data collection, and organization was needed in order to have a quality research topic. After finishing my research, I realized that I was CAN create a proposal of a topic that CAN be researched. I enjoyed the data collection time period where I was teaching students but didn't like the analyzing portion of the research process.