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Ap English Classes

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The classes that have been observed and that will be analyzed in this essay are the English Honors and AP English courses which took place at Cerritos High School during the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016. This analysis will focus on the instructor of said classes, David Hind, and on their curriculum, specifically on how the assessment of the students’ learning took place. The instructor of the classes which I observed has a peculiar background. As a matter of fact, during his bachelor’s degree he did not specialize in education, he chose instead to follow the path of a double major in creative writing and philosophy. Moreover, Mr. Hind did not plan or think about becoming a teacher until after he had finished his undergraduate studies. After graduating, he realized that he could forward and improve his career by pursuing a teaching credential. After earning a teaching credential, David Hind found a job as a substitute teacher in various high schools, and he kept doing it for about seven years until he was assigned as a substitute teacher to Cerritos High School, which he loved instantly and where he applied (and was hired) for a more stable position. Mr. Hind does not have a specific background in ESL learning, but he has always found himself teaching to students from a variety …show more content…

Considering that I have not decided yet if I want to be a teacher, or which ages I would like to instruct, this opportunity was helpful and significant. Moreover, it was fascinating to see the same person instruct two separate classes and curriculums; it taught me that if I were one day to find myself in the position of having to teach different courses, I could apply the same method of teaching in all of them by adapting it to the curriculums and to the students’

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