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I feel most comfortable learning and participating in class when a good classroom community has first been established. It is amazing how much more I will open up and thrive as a classroom participant if I feel a strong, supportive connection with the people in the class. Building relationships takes time, but it makes the learning experience much more rich and engaging. I am amazed at how often no classroom community is created in my classes, and as a result, I often feel very disconnected--- almost as if I am an outsider merely observing the class! I don't participate very much in an environment like that because I feel closed off. The building of relationships in a classroom, and creating an attitude of respect and appreciation among students is something that I will keep at the forefront of my mind when I become a teacher. It's important to eliminate a feeling of competition among students, and instead make them feel as though everyone is working together as a team, and all opinions are valued equally.

I also feel very uncomfortable when I am put on the spot by the professor, or when my learning styles are not taken into consideration. When I am a teacher one day, I will try my best to understand that though the aims of learning may be the same for a given class, the means that students use to reach those goals are always different, and that's okay! I will also not expect students to learn or work in the same manner that I do. l will consider that everyone is different, and that is what makes a classroom community unique! With this in mind, I will also offer a number of varied ways in which to evaluate students, as only providing one way to assess a student, does not fairly and accurately embrace the various strengths that individual students may or may not have.FieldYALITLens4