As this course is coming to an end, I learned many significant things that I never paid much attention to before. First of all, I learned a lot about time management. It's really important, especially in this course, to manage your time well. It's impossible to complete all of your work and do a thorough job on it if the right amount of time isn't taken to complete it. I also learned a lot about working with others to complete a task. When we first started doing the literature circles, I was a bit worried about getting it all done on time in order for my classmates to be able to post and comment on my reactions to the questions or articles. We had to rely on one another to complete the task in order for all of us to receive a good grade for that week. Most importantly, I learned a lot about myself during the duration of this course. In January, I wasn't absolutely 100% positive to whether or not I wanted to teach first or second grade. I have always wanted to become a teacher ever since I was young, but the grade to which I wanted to teach was unclear. After completing all of my four observations in a first grade classroom, I made the decision that I definitely wanted to be a first grade teacher. After walking out the door of each of the four observations, I had a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm. I wanted to go back and stay longer. I truthfully felt extremely rewarded and I would not have known all the rewards and excitement that comes along with teaching first grade students! After completing all of these blogs, I was excited to look back and see all of the efforts that I put into these blogs. It was a positive factor to see how much time I really put into making each and every blog. It was also very helpful to be able to read each and every one of our classmates blogs. Some of the topics that we blogged on, I only had one view on the topic, but after looking over a few other blogs, my views changed and open my horizons much wider then they were to begin with! Overall, these blogs were a positive factor in this course and I know that I will refer to my blog in the future in order to help me with my career.
Howard Gardner was a brilliant man who discovered the theory of multiple intelligences. Howard Gardner really excelled researching the way in which people think and learn. After years and years of research, he discovered the theory of multiple intelligences. He viewed intelligence as "the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting." He eventually came up with a list of seven different types of 
1. Linguistic Intelligence 
In my opinion, Education is just like building a house. When building a house, you need a team and a leader to organize everything. In schools systems, there needs to be a "team leader" which would be the principle, and then all the "workers" which is the faculty members. Once all of the people are assembled, the process can begin. Most of the time, before a construction company builds a house, they must brainstorm and create the blue prints first. The blue prints would be in comparison with a schools curriculum. The curriculum needs to be made before any decisions are made on what to teach students in specific grade levels.
After revising and understanding each part of the blue prints for a house, the company can start to build the house. After the blue prints and the team members are assembled, all of the materials need to be purchased otherwise nothing can be accomplished. Just like in a school system. Books, materials, etc need to be purchased so that not only the teachers have a copy of what they are teaching, but students and parents can follow along by having their own copies of materials and books used during class time. After all said and done, the house can be started. The foundation is the concrete part of school systems. Without a strong and solid foundation, the house/school with collapse. Once the foundation is rock solid, all of the walls and levels can be put into place. In the beginning of a child's education, they start in first grade and work their way up. Once they grow academically and physically, the move on to the next grade level. Same thing for the house. Once the first level is set and stone, the next level can be made. Education and building a house really play off one another. As the child learns and grows, their progress and grade level grows, and as a house continues to get larger and stronger, it gets fuller and more complete.
So far during this course, I learned a few different things. First of all, I learned not to wait until the last minute to work or something. It hard to cram everything in all at once and do a through job on it. Second of all, I learned that it's important to work as a team. During our literature circle discussions, it's was really important for our team member's to post and respond so that we could all apply our ideas to one another. Lastly, I learned about learning itself. It's difficult sometimes to read something and fully understand the information or the task at hand. From personal experiences, I learned that 