Week 2 Journal Entry:

Week 2 Journal Entry: 
After completing the activities and engaging with the resources this week, end the week with a final reflection. Here are some questions to guide your thinking:

• During your own education, how has your "intelligence" been assessed?
• How has this affected the educational opportunities you have been given? 
• What judgments have people made about you that have been affected by an assessment of your "intelligence"?
• Do you consider yourself to be a "learner"? why?More often than I would care to think, some of the time this has been through test which actually have very little to do with intelligence and more to do with jumping through hoops and doing as you are told. Other times arbitrary assumptions have been made about my intelligence based on the neatness of my hand writing and ability to spell. Back in the good old days if University applications when applications were done by hand there is no doubt in my mind that my messy scrawl was cast away in preference for some one with impossibly neat hand writing. In my early years of education it was decided not to put a too finer point on it that I was not intelligent and was put into a special needs class by a teacher whom I did not get on with, mainly because she was obsessed with hand writing and spelling. I can remember being punished for not learning my spellings and my messy hand writing and being really stopped form learning until I got these things up to standard. The point her is that I had very supportive parents and was always seen by my peers as "the professor" at school a nick name that I loved. Students would come up and ask me questions all the time. Back then I really did the learning for myself at home rather than at school which seemed to be one painful day after another trying to improve my hand writing. I can remember learning how to minimise this pain on a daily basis and adapting to the situation as it developed. Mainly this meant keeping a low profile from the hated teachers in class and learning for myself at home and in the local library (yes this was way before the internet had even been thought about). At about 8 I can remember taking a book from the school "How the earth was made" thinking it was a geography / geology type book, when in fact is was a Christian text. As a leaner that was a very important turning point in my life where I started to question what I had learnt in school which was quite religious at the time. That upset my teacher even more and there was even a sense of enjoyment on my part when I would tell her what I had learnt about with my dad and how this conflicted with her religious teachings.