This paper is a about what I feel is important in educating high school students.   I used this as an opportunity to explain how I feel there needs to be in interest and passion in educating students in order to be successful, and how a teacher needs to keep an open mind to learn from the students as well as teach them.  This assignment required me to figure out why I wanted to become a teacher and how I can remember that once I am in the classroom.

      This was an outline of a presentation I gave about how to use debating and discussion in a high school classroom.  What was nice about giving a presentation instead of writing a paper about this subject is that it gave me on opportunity to share what I learned with my fellow classmates and get them thinking about using debating and discussion when they teach.  In the presentation I concentrated on different methods of debating and discussion as well as the pros and cons of each method on the skills used by the student.  I leaned a great deal about how to make a classroom more interactive for students by having an opportunity to apply what they have learned through debating and discussing with their fellow students.  I hope to use these methods in my classroom in the future.

    This assignment was to write about how Confucius would advise the 2004 presidential candidates on how they should run the government.  Confucius was a 5th century Chinese man who spent his life trying to teach leaders on the most effective ways to run their government.  This is an example of my ability to write a coherent historical essay using the information we learned in this course.

      This assignment was on comparing different religious groups in medieval Europe.  In this paper we were asked to make an opinion on an issue and use the facts we learned in class to backup that opinion.  This paper is an example of my ability to support an historical argument.