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           The decision to become a teacher came to me at a later age in my life. being raised by two parent who work in the medical field, I sot of convinced myself that that was where I am needing to be. But as I enrolled in a respiratory therapy program after high school, I realized that the science and anatomy aren't my strong suits and so I struggled greatly while trying to go these classes for a degree I knew I didn't want. And so I made the switch, realizing that while I love to help people there other ways in which they can be helped. So I decided to see if teaching would be the right course for me and after I have taken this class I can say that for a fact, I am even more driven to become a teacher.           The service learning really helped me understand the environment of a classroom and how to work with students. When I came into the class I was a little bit nervous about meeting my teacher and the students but my...

  Are you making connections between course topics and Service Learning?               Over the span of this course, I can say that I have made some key connections with the course topics and                service learning. With each course topic I have been able to apply the material within Ms. Mitari's classroom               and while I observed Ms. Mitari's classroom within the span of three weeks, I luckily wrote logged and wrote              down everything that occurred on a given day and was able to thoroughly backtrack and apply the course               topics to my service learning experience. Have you been able to articulate your own learning and understanding?                  At the beginning ...

       When it comes to the standards and standardized testing, I was able to observe some of the impact it had made during my time observing Ms. Mitari's class. The way the class structured really showed how much emphasis the state feels what students are needing to learn more about by giving very specific time frames depending on the subject. For subjects such as math, science, writing, more time was allotted for these subjects with each subject having a 45 minute to 50 minute period. Other subjects such as social studies and art were given 25-30 minute time blocks. This structure of periods seemed odd to me as these were very specific set times for each subject that it seemed that Ms. Mitari was micro-managed by the state. I asked Ms. Mitari how she liked the structure of the class and she had expressed dislike with this way of scheduling as she truly felt like she was micro managed and never felt that she had had enough to cover each topic, or that she was scramb...