SAMANTHA
Exceptional Education Undergraduate |
SAMANTHA
Exceptional Education Undergraduate |
Officially one week back in the United States as of today. The week has gone by fast, however, it feels like a lifetime ago that we were in the Dominican Republic. Two days after returning home I began student teaching in a Buffalo Public School in a fifth-grade integrated co-teaching classroom. This means that some of the students are special education students and there are always two teachers in the classroom. As I compare this classroom set up to that in the Dominican Republic, I cannot help but think how lucky the children in the Buffalo schools are without even realizing it. I have also thought this when I look throughout the room and I see children with eight or ten books stacked up on their desk, so high that they can barely see the Promethean Board in the front of the room. The students carelessly throw the books on the floor or leave them at home, and are therefore unable to complete their work somedays. I am by no means saying that this is the fault of the students. They do not know anything else. In the Dominican Republic, some students cannot even afford books, so they do not have the choice whether they can complete their work each day. I want the students in my class in Buffalo to understand what it is like to be a student in the same grade and of the same age, but in another country, that has far less resources than we do here in the states. I am hoping to teach the students a lesson about what it is like to live in the Dominican Republic. It is unfortunate, however, because I know that no matter how excellent of a lesson I teach, the students will never understand the issue in the same way that I do after seeing and living in the conditions in the DR.
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Today was our final day of fun in the sun (and the classroom). This week teaching at Coral has been a learning experience and a chance to grow that I never thought I would have in this lifetime. There are two valuable lessons that I learned from this experience at the school.
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