Making a Difference

The book may be down, my pen may be capped, but I will carry this book with me, if not in my hand, then in my heart. I planned to be a teacher for many years now and I will continue with this plan. I want to put into effect the solutions to the major problems I see in the educational system today. First off, I have a knack for understanding children. I have been a camp counselor for many years as well as a babysitter, and each year I walk into camp and within the first day I know which children are not social, which children have ADD, which children have learning disabilities and which children are slow to mature. I know all of this because I care. If teachers paid more attention to individual students rather than the class as a whole they would be able to better assess these students. Children also are not as dumb as one may think, they pick up on things, they know when people don't like them or think they are stupid or incompetent. My job as an educator would be to motivate each one of my students and believe in their ability to suceed. I am a believer, and many may disagree, that any child can overcome their disadvantages with enough advantages. These students need the resources to allow them to learn, and the person who is the mediator, the middle man in all of this, is the teacher. If a teacher trys their best to get the parents involved and creates a trusting and open relationship in the classroom, and if a teacher can understand the way a child processes information and uses it to their advantage in assessment, maybe more would succeed. Standardized testing does not leave much time for creativity and alternate learning styles, but that will have to be one of my obstacles I try to overcome as a teacher. I will make it my job and my goal for each student to succeed in his or her own way. I will not allow these standardized tests and these limited resources to put my students down in any way. Sometimes all a child needs is someone to believe in them, it worked for me and I am determined to find out if it can work for others. Some may say that trial and error is not the way to go concerning a child's education, but some may also say that it can't get much worse than this. The No Child Left Behind has failed the youth, what can a little more attention and motivation do, help? You can call me an optimist, you can call me hopeless, but this, right now, is my plan. England is right with her solutions, it's just about time for someone to put them into action.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJ3kpZxIvU


for some reason my video didn't post on my blog. So here it is, I found this video very funny, it basically made fun of the fact that we keep the same people in the same families in power and there is no diversity in the government. If we are such a democracy, why do we have the same people in the same families with the same ideals running our country in every aspect they can??