What is the most important thing you have learned during fieldwork observation? Why?

          I don't want to sound cliche' in this post but the most important thing I have learned is that I truly can make a difference. I won't have 100% control over my student's actions, thoughts, and behaviors but how I treat students and my response to their many different behaviors is something I have 100% control over. I have seen teachers handle situations in ways I wouldn't necessarily handle situations. I have seen teachers handle situations better than I would have handled a situation. I have seen predictable students and I have seen unpredictable students.

         I have the ability to set up a classroom with effective classroom management techniques to promote a structured and healthy learning environment. I have the ability to be pro-active or re-active. I have the ability to love my job or hate my job. I have the ability to see the good in the students and give the benefit of the doubt or I have the ability to pass judgment and hinder learning in child. My choices are a big deal. My response to situations is a big deal. Whether my impact is a positive one or a negative one is based on my actions and with much thought, planning, and sacrifice, whether my impact is for a minute, an hour, a day, a month, a term, a year, or a lifetime, I can make a difference in a child's life.