Monday, October 5, 2015

Unqualified

My computer is all kinds of screwed up right now.  I'm not exactly sure what is going on but this particular page is way off kilter.  Wonderful!  Well, I am in these classes right now for education and I am learning some things and feeling like I am completely unqualified. I guess that is why I am in the classes right?  Yep, well, I don't know, it seems like a lot and it seems so far away from me at the moment.  To make me feel even better I had a conversation with a friend of mine that I saw in passing and he asked about math.  I don't even want to think about math right now but I have to.  In my special ed class we talked about ADHD tonight and those feelings of being completely unqualified were magnified 10 fold.  Holy cow.  The professor mentioned another student that was working in a classroom at a local school that had 8 students in the class of 24 to 30 that had IEP's for ADHD.  That is a lot.  At the same time there is so much that I am learning and it is good.  It is also interesting to go from learning about a behaviorist approach to then being told that is a bad approach and one should focus more on social cognition and then that even advances up the latter.  The thing is that a ton of people, teachers use the behaviorist approach with gold stars or clothespins or colors or a rating system.  I have one professor who seems to support behaviorist approaches with special needs kids and another professor who is anti behaviorist.  Oh, I also found out I have a test on Wednesday.  I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful.  I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful...

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