Reflection of Memorandum

I feel that this assignment was particularly useful as a future teacher. Not only are we going to be put in the position of teaching our students how to become efficient writers but most likely, throughout our teaching career, we will be put in a similar position as an active faculty member. I always was under the notion that a memorandum was a short “FYI” notice and did not realize the depth of it.

As for the actual assignment, I ran into difficulties along the way. I felt that my memorandum was fairly short and was worried that I didn’t cover the topic or get my point across. However, after talking to both groups on Tuesday and Thursday, they relived my worries. They told me that it was straight and to the point but still fully covered all that I needed to cover. I also wasn’t sure if there was a right or wrong way to go about writing the summary. I learned that the format of a memo is similar to writing styles; they are all different but can still be correct at the same time.

Some of the recommendations I discussed in my paper were ones that I experiences (or didn’t experience) as a student myself. Others were new to me. For instance, “Teachers need to be a role model.” Of course this isn’t a new idea for me however the way to go about doing it is. Such as, teachers should do assignments with their students in order to understand the struggles they are experiencing.

In researching this topic I also was able to grasp the understanding of letting children choose their own topics a little bit better. You can point your students in a particular subject matter and let them take it from there.

When it came to using references, I mainly used my own. I wanted to use others but I felt like I had to read the entire article to make sure that I got the same thing out of it that my classmate did. It also was hard because not everyone in our group did their article summary.