Reflect on your perceived value of this course. Include both
positive and negative aspects of your experience. What might you have done to
improve your learning experience in this course? How might the University or
your instructor provide additional support for your learning? Were there topics
covered in this course that seem particularly relevant or irrelevant to your
experiences and to what you expect to come in future courses?
There are
many values to courses such as the leadership course which I have taken over
the past 8 weeks. I think that MSLD 500 is very important considering how many
people might not be prepared for the challenge which we are just getting
started. There were three main components in my opinion which really make this
class important to get through as a pre-requisite to all the other leadership
courses. The three components are critical thinking, action research and APA writing.
In this class my view was completely changed on the importance of these three
components.
I truly felt
that critical thinking opened my eyes to a new way of seeing things throughout
life in general. I now know that I need to think things through and I know
which route to take to get the true meaning of my studies. This will be
important throughout my time as a graduate student, knowing how to think
clearly will give me the insight I need to get the most out of my studies.
Our action
research project helped me take on the role of being a being a leader, for once I was the one doing
the research and I was not counting to heavily on the work that others have
done. This project gave me a different perspective compared to the work that I
had done in the past, it is different when you are the one that is in charge of
getting the data. I feel that this project was meant to help us feel and
understand what it is like to be a leader and rely on ourselves more than
others.
Overall the
most important part of this course for me was the practice I received with APA
writing style. I feel that this was something that I was very weak at and I had
not experienced too much practice with it in the past. Knowing how to present
your work is one of the most important things that a leader can learn to do. As
a leader you have to be able to guide your team, if you are not able to present
your work in a scholarly way then no one will take you serious. Having the
respect and support of your team is essential in our success as leaders, once
this is lost it is very hard to get back.
I think that
this course was structured very well and if there was something I could have
changed I think that it would have been the time constraints which I and
probably most people have to deal with when taking courses like this. I feel
that my learning experience would have been a lot better if I had more time to
think things through, this is a personal issue which I will have to get around.
As far as the class goes, I think we were given more than enough time to
complete the work. Trying to find a balance between school work and life is
something which I will have to get better at as I continue through this degree
program.
I think that
this was a great semester, I can see how this course will create some great
leaders. This course and degree is meant to get people to break out of their
shell as followers and begin to become leaders over time. I can see how this
degree program will be very different from when I was working on my
under-graduates degree and I am looking forward to the challenge.
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