lunes, 16 de noviembre de 2009

“Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)”

Hello, finally I am finishing this process of English learning at the university - I hope it goes well!- and today, I am going to tell you about “Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)”. In this essay, I will describe the most important events in my academic year and I will try to do an evaluation of all this. To begin with, I need to tell you that this year is very important for me, because it is my last year at the university; I will graduate in December and get my degree in Psychology. As you can imagine, this has been a long process, therefore, this year is not any!. I am feeling very nervous, sad and happy at the same time; since I am going through several changes right now. For this reason, in the following essay, I will talk about those events have happened in this academic year and I will try to reflect on what I am feeling now.

For me, The acadamic year 2009 began the day that we had to take subjects, that is, “in our holidays”. The choice of taking subjects is a very complicated process, because you must be secure about yourself, in order to know in which area you would like to work; and then, to wait for a selection system. For me, it was not easy, due to the fact that I did not know in which area I wanted to focus on. Therefore, I went to talk about this situation with my favorite teacher, who is an educational psychologist. She helped me a lot, because I could choose the best subjects for me: “Educational and School Psychology” and “Education Consultant Institution”. As you can see, my subjects are related to educational psychology.

In the “Educational and School Psychology” subject, I have learned so much about the smooth running of the school and the educational system. Moreover, in this subject, we wrote a very interesting paper about “Mapuche Education”. In this work, my classmate and I interviewed Mapuche people. It was a great experience, because I think that their world view –therefore, their view on education too - is very different and more interesting than our occidental view; because they really develop an integral human being. On the other hand, I have learned so much in the “Education Consultant Institution” subject, because we were working on two projects for one state school. In this place, we made a course about interpersonal relationships, with teachers and students.

In conclusion, I can say that this year has been better than the others, because: I have learned so much (about: Mapuche Education, education system, to work with teachers and students, etc.) and the most important thing is that “I found my professional vocation”, I love educational psychology!. However, I think that next year will be very difficult for me. I will have to do professional internship
and my thesis project. Sometimes, I feel that I will not able to do it. Nevertheless, I know that I must trust in my capacities in order to achieve my goals.

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