Katheryn Watson Reflection

Katheryn Watson is an extremely creative, out of the box thinker, and she tried to get her students to be like that also. She derailed from the text book, showing more unique images to her class, in an attempt to get them thinking in a deeper way that is not taught in books. The students were stuck in the critical way of thinking They examined the textbook to get a greater understanding of the first slide show of paintings. Ms. Watson, however, converting their critical thinking into creative thinking. When she offered them material that was not in the book, they realized that they had to create their own ideas, ones that they could not get from a text book. She also encouraged the girls to reach out of the norms of society to achieve what they want in life. But, Katheryn also learned herself that
I needed to know the information for the test even though I was not sure how it applied to the bigger picture. It easily became frustrating that I was “learning” all this knowledge that I was not able to retain or did not seem to have a meaning to it. But it seems that after I actually analyzed my education more, I realized that some of my teachers taught us in more of a critical thinking way, and others in a creative thinking way. Some teachers taught straight out of the book, fact was fact and that was it. On the other hand, some teachers encouraged us to base our own opinion out of the facts we were taught, and we were also challenged to find ways to “teach ourselves” sometimes rather than being given the regular lesson by the instructor. I have only had a few, of my many teachers, that taught creatively in the same depth as Ms. Watson though. Also like Ms. Watson, my school always told us that we could do whatever we wanted with our lives, they did not put much limitations on what they thought we could achieve. They encouraged us to set high expectations for ourselves and strive for big things in our