Final Blog

Observation hours always prove to be a rewarding experience for me, even though they start out as frustrating to accomplish. It is always difficult to observe the types of lessons that our professor's wish for us to see but in the process many other useful aspects of teacher is observed. It was especially interesting to observe in this school because all of the students are classified as being either emotionally disturbed or autistic and many of them have multiple diagnosis's. Because of these severe conditions, the teachers must function quite differently than in a general education school. Their classroom management skills as well as creativity and flexibility are much greater because each student must have an individualized education since their diagnosis's are all different. Many more manipulatives and tools were used in this school to keep the students engaged such as music and visual aids. Even though I was not able to observe a great social studies lesson I was able to see much more of the type of school that I am interested in working in and that is the value that I found in my observations for the semester through P.S 4 and also my new job working with emotionally disturbed children.