Last Reflection!

Ah...and we come to a close! This whole semester has been a great opportunity for reflection and I have appreciated the blog. I loved the chance to be in a classroom and to try and take what we have been learning in our classes into actual practice. Lets just say the lab is different from the real world. I have recognized a shift in myself from my understanding of education from the perspective of a student who spent time sitting in my desk in a classroom of rows and going to the computer lab once a week. Everything we have learned is contrary to the way we were raised. I saw in the school I did my field experience in the tendency for older teachers to take less advantage of technological advances than our technology class would lead me to believe is natural for teaching students growing up in this generation. A shift must happen and I imagine our cohort will be a part of it in the years to come.

The video for the week was great. In our educational psychology class we have just been talking about the differences in students backgrounds and learning styles and what biases we may have in the way we approach students. As a teacher, our perspective should be one of really believing in a child's future, each child we come in contact with.