My personal opinions

I learned quite a bit in the class. I knew that there were two different kinds of teachers but I now have names for them. I intend to be a teacher more focused on what the kids learn. When I was in school the teachers weren't really concerned that the special education students learned anything they just passed them on through school. In my opinion a child will only reach the expectations you have for it so in other words its the teacher who sets a child's limitations.I truly believe that the special needs students are capable of so much more than we tend to give them credit for. I did get to observe a wonderful teacher interacting with her students for one of my previous college classes and you could just see it in all that she did that she loved those kids and they were the most important things to her (not to mention she told them often how wonderful they were) and those kids learned a lot they were all very intelligent and on the oposite side of the spectrum I took a peer tutoring class in highschool in which I saw a teacher who sat behind her desk all day and never interacted with the students unless she was being observed by the principal, she left everything else to the aids and the students coming in to do the peer tutoring. In this class it was obvious with some of the students that no one ever cared if they learned anything there was a fifteen year old boy who couldn't have told you what his own last name was. I will never forget those kids...they're what inspired me. Because of this teacher they were suffering. I know I have a lot to offer my classroom in the future because I have seen both teaching methods in effect. I know that this is my passion and I hope to succeed in this field.