Blog F- Still interested?

Taking the EDU 125 and the SED125 classes hasn’t changed my mind at all. I know I want to teach children. I chose this major because I know how much a teacher can influence their students. I want to make sure that each child is getting positively influenced. I learned more about the “behind-the-scene” things such as money, testing, certifications, but it doesn’t change my mind. I thought coming into the teaching program that I would be making around $26,000 a year, come to find out it is $30,000. I just thinking shaping children’s minds is so important, and I have things I want the future generations to acknowledge. In SED 125, Dr. Grace Denison made me realize that it wasn’t going to be all about building gingerbread houses during the Holidays or dressing up to learn about the medieval times. I learned that there are some difficult tasks, but I am willing to get involved and get my hands dirty if necessary. She told us a lot of the bad names she had been called, but she was always sure to remind us that those things didn’t matter. It was the times when a student finally got what you were trying to teach them. Those are the moments I want to experience, even if it means facing things like NCLB and students with disabilities. Now that I know those things ahead of time, the best thing I can do is to be completely knowledgeable of the matter and put forth my best efforts. During EDU 125 I learned a lot more about diversity which is what I had thought most about. I also learned about the history of education which was very interesting and a shamed that I never knew anything about it ahead of time. EDU 125 opened my eyes up; it allowed me to see that each teacher doesn’t have to do things the exact way. There are many different philosophies of education and then they can be combined. Taking these classes made me more excited to get into a classroom more so than scared me off. I’m stickin’ to it!