Blog F

SED really taught me everything that I could experience in a classroom. I didn’t realize until the class that there are so many children with different kinds of learning disorders and physical impairments. It was really helpful to learn about how to deal with these kinds of children because most of us have never been involved with them. To also get a background on each disorder helped because it’s good to know what they experience and that way you can try to make class time more manageable for them. Plus all the stories she has from her experience are just amazing because in other states there are really out of control children and I’m surprised she still teaches after some of the stories I have heard.

EDU filled us in with the history of education and how the patterns have taken place. It’s interesting to know where education came from and how much it has improved. It was also helpful to have the opportunity to go to the autism conferences because it just gives you a glimps of what life is like for them. With our guests coming into class gave us a introduction to what teaching is going to be like. With the first year students, it seems like lesson planning is going to be the hardest part of the job because you need to decide to what you want to cover in your class. With the teacher who has 40 years under her belt of teaching, it was interesting to see how she viewed things differently from the first year teachers. With so many years of experience, there must be something that makes her keep coming back to teach. I have a feeling it’s the kids themselves and the relationships you develop with them.

It makes me realize that there are so many other things that go along with teaching that I didn’t think about before. I’m glad I had these too classes because they brought up subjects that I didn’t even think about when I said I wanted to be a teacher. Although, after learning about children and disabilities and the history behind teaching, it still doesn’t change my mind about my major. So this probably means that I chose the right major after hearing all these stories about different types of children.