Education Reflection Paper

Education takes on different meanings for different people. For a five-year-old, it’s the best thing in the world to be able to be with other people and learn new and exciting things about the world. For teenagers, education is about having to get up in the morning and drag yourself to class to be around other sleep-deprived teenagers. My experience with education has been a long and difficult road, but I found that the teachers that are there and do respect your time make it worth every second. One of the key influences on an educational experience is the how the teacher interacts and reacts to their students. I’d like to talk about a certain teacher that has influenced my will to join the education profession, and that has also played

It was my sophomore year of high school, and as many teenagers, I was not fascinated about the idea of waking up for school. It was through English II, the required English class for sophomores, that I really got to know Darla. I was an average student, not too smart, but still smart enough to know what I was doing. English II just so happened to my very first class of the day. Keep in mind that I’m a highschool student; therefore, I’m like Garfield the cat, except, every day is a Monday. However, without failure, I’d stroll in Darla’s class and be greeted with a friendly, “Good morning Chuck!” That single phrase made my mornings ten times better than what I had expected. She’d ask how my day/weekend was, and engage in a conversation that others could join in

I was always treated with respect no matter what situation arose. Darla always very strict about her “treat others with respect” rule. If you entered her classroom at any given time, you were guaranteed to be treated with the utmost respect. Mike Rose states in his novel Why School?: “But I’m interested here in the experience of education when it’s done well with the student’s well-being in mind…” (Rose 32). That’s exactly what Darla put at the utmost importance: the student’s well-being. She wanted the students to not only enjoy her class, but have the students respect each other as well. Mike Rose goes on to talk about different expressions about a teacher’s classroom that he has heard from several children. For example, one of them is as follows: “This room is something positive…” (Rose 33). I believe that’s exactly what Darla had in mind when setting up her classroom. She wanted it to be a positive and outgoing educational experience, and that’s exactly how I felt about the