How have you learned from your overeall experience?

I have learned that being a teacher is not easy at all, not only do you have to teach students; I have learned that sometimes you have to make sure everything is okay in their home life.  Sometimes teachers spend money that the school will not give them in order to reward their students or help them understand a concept better.  They have alot of responsility and stress on them.  I have realized that it takes a special person to be a teacher and I have also learned that I am not one of those special people.  I look up alot more to the teachers that are trying their best to teach their students in the best way possible.

How do classroom management philosophies and techniques influence how teachers resolve classroom discipline issues?

Every teacher has a certain method they use to discipline students.  Some methods work really well, and some do not work as well.  As a teacher, you just have to experiment and see what method would work best for you.  These management techniques give all students equal discipline, if any students does something he/she is not suppose too then they will have consequences.  Most teachers for the younger grade levels put kids in time out or take a toy away, but for the older students it is either a write up or a phone call home to the parents.  Many of the techniques that teachers use are very effective.  As a student you just have know what to expect from your teacher, and always follow the rules.

What are some signs of a good day in class? What things happen in your opinion to constitute to a good day in the classroom? What are some signs of a bad day and what do they look like?

I think a good day in class is when students start to understand a subject that they have been struggling with.  Even if students just pay more attention to you as you try to teach, and seem to be eager to learn.  Depending on what great level a good day could be not having to send anyone to time out or not have to write anyone up.  A bad day in my opinion would be just the opposite.  If everyone is looking at me like I am speaking another language when I am teaching them something new.  It would be a bad day for me if students are too busy talking to each other to pay me any attention.  If I have to use bad consequences for my students actions then it would not be a very good day, because I think that students should come to class ready to learn.

If you were to describe your ideal classroom, how would you describe it, and what are your reasons behind it being ideal in your opinion?

My ideal classroom is a place where students are eager to learn and teachers love to fill students with knowledge.  You can always tell when teachers love their job, or when they feel as if you're a burden on them.  Teachers have a huge responsibility; I think that they should everything in their power to help the students understand the subject better. This might mean that they spend some of their own money, but I think the greater price is knowing that they helped a student understand a difficult subject. When I think of a classroom, I think of students posters that they have completed in class or at home all over the walls. This just illustrates the work that students have done and that it is good enough to go on the walls. 

What are things that you can honestly say contributes to you continuing to want to go into the teaching profession, and so that you may not?

Just knowing that there are so many kids out there that need help makes me want to go into the teaching profession.  They really need someone that has a lot of patience, and I have learned through experience that that someone is not me.  It has made me realize that I cannot deal with children especially not the special needs children.  They are the cutest kids I have ever seen but I really just cannot handle it.  I loved it before my car accident, but I think that now the main reason why I don't want to go into the teaching profession is because of the major headaches I am still having and going over to Oakwood only makes it worse.  I have no idea what I want to major in, but teaching is still in the back of my mind.

How have you been able to contribute to the student's understanding of topics within the classroom, and do they respomd well to younger adults?

I am not in the classroom when the teachers have learning time, as they call it.  Therefore, the most learning I have seen the students participate in is when they are too loud with their toys Mrs. Goots makes them clean up so she can read to them.  I personally think that they do respond well to me when I tell them to put the toys up or whatever it might be.  I think that since I have the younger ones they think I'm as old as the teachers because I am as tall as the teachers. 

What have you learned about differentiation in your classroom?

There is many types of differentiation in my classroom, because I have students with many different types of disabilities.  With so many different disabilities it's really hard for Mrs. Goots to prepare a lesson, because they are so many different ways she needs to teach.  She has two teacher aides that help her, so they split up and put the kids into groups that are on the same intellectual level.  I've only heard about them doing this; I've never seen from experience of being there because they do not have time to teach when I am there! I have observed that the students learn at very different paces so we as teachers or teacher cadets have to be very patient with the students.