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Gateway Experiences

    I cannot speak to Gateway experiences in my PioCore, only because I feel as though I have not had any such experiences in those classes. I do feel Carroll has prepared me for a job, but in my major classes- not within the core curriculum. My education classes have prepared me well for a job in the teaching world, with multiple field experiences in various classrooms and districts. I was able to realize what the ideal grade was that I wanted to teach and what district I want to be in. Coming into college, I chose Carroll because of how personal I felt my experience was. Welcome Week was particularly helpful for helping break the ice, even set during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Because I am in the honors program, I was able to live in a house with other freshmen and make a lot of friends right off the bat. Without these key experiences, I believe it would have been much harder for me to make the connections and build the group I have now.
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Enduring Values

    One value my PioCore classes helped me develop is being wrong. Growing up academically gifted and in the honors classes led me to become uncomfortable with being wrong; I thought I always needed to know the answer immediately. When I was wrong or did not know the answer, I felt like less of a person because of it. I often equated my own self-worth to my breadth of knowledge. In my PioCore classes, I realized there were so many things I was wrong about or simply did not know about. I also realized I was not alone in this. Everyone is always growing and learning- being wrong did not make me lesser. In fact, it showed me I still had so much to learn and how that is a positive thing.
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Lifelong Skills

      One of the best skills I've gained from my PioCore classes was to be skeptical. I used to accept things at face value. I was not a questioning person- if someone told me, with enough conviction, that something was true, I accepted it as fact. Through studying culture and its varying aspects, I realized a lot of things I had previously believed were wrong. I grew to question what people told me and not to take my own opinions or moral standings for granted. I also grew comfortable with being wrong; as a high academic student, I always felt like I knew the right answer and things came easily to me. Studying culture is complicated- people dedicate their entire lives to the subject and still don't have some answers. Learning the value of not knowing something and being open to being wrong has helped me develop as a person and as a life-long learner.
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Integrated Knowledge

      Growing up in a small town in Texas, I did not learn much (if anything) about culture and the world around me. I thought (as most do) that I had it all figured out at 18. When I began my first CCS class, I realized that I, in fact, knew almost nothing. Paired with my Intercultural Context in Education class, I learned about the racial inequalities in education. Because of the knowledge I was able to gain from these classes, I had the opportunity to teach some classes myself about the intersectionality between race and education. I also took many classes not related to my major: animal behavior, cultural anthropology, and a psychology course. I realized I loved psychology so much, I decided to continue my education in the subject and minor in it. Without the PioCore classes, I would not have been able to have the opportunities to broaden my knowledge outside of my chosen major.
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