Assignment #9: Ed3602 Course Exit Card

It is a difficult to gain the necessary distance from the course so soon after it finished (yesterday). Therefore, my comments will probably be premature and ‘half-baked.’ Nor at the moment, do I have the interest or energy to dig out the course syllabus and studiously critique which things seemed redundant as well as where more could have been added. I will, however, repeat some of my comments that I put on the evaluation.

This course carries an interesting burden of presenting some material that is new and some that so much common sense that it seems redundant. Considering that so many of the disorders and behaviours result in similar modifications, at times it seemed pointless to try to extricate them and treat them independently of one another.

The homework load in this class was fairly heavy and this is not a simple, lazy request for less work. The problem with too much homework is that we, as students, have a tendency to switch gears into ‘just going through the motions’ and not making the work meaningful. Retention goes down and frustration goes up when we feel that we are doing busywork. Off the top of my head I cannot think of which assignments felt like busywork, but I know that some of it did.

If I could give one piece of advice it would be to consider which information and resources need only to be presented and gone through in a perfunctory manner only so that we know where to find information in the future when faced with a specific issue/ disorder or condition. This would free up time and mental focus to absorb and value other parts of the course that require deliberate thought and attention.

I may add to this at a later date- as I stated above, it is simply too soon after the course to reflect thoroughly and critically. As I read this over, I realize that it mostly sounds negative, which is unfair considering that by in large I found the class to be a positive experience. Again, this is a drawback of: too soon, too close.