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Week 6 reflection

This week I focused my research on the difference between teaching today and teaching awhile ago. It seems that the biggest shift is one from a stagnant learning environment to one that encourages students to engage and be a part of their own education.

In todays classroom students are more engaged in their own learning. By saying this I don't mean that all students are fully engaged in the lesson for that day or fully are listening to everything the teacher is saying. I mean that they have more control over their education. With so much technology available to them they can do supplemental work at home or even in a Sped classroom. There is also so many more tools available to teachers to help each student work to the best of their ability.

I can't imaging what it would have been like to teach in a one room school house. I also think it's interesting that today there are some community that still have the same type of school, very small number of students and teachers, but they are still able to access the same type of support many bigger schools have. I can't imaging what a teacher would have to go through to help students before cell phones, computers, and the internet.

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