Blog Entry #7 Assignment

I feel as though I lucked out with my Service Learning Teacher. Her oldest is Autistic. She she is quick to be fair to all learners, no matter their race, gender, background, or learning style. She has a couple kids of different races in her class and the students talk and treat each other as though they're all the same. 

There are times when you get to ask a spotlighted student 10 questions. And some questions that are asked are innocent to 1st graders, but can be rude to an understanding adult or older student. So my teacher will redirect and say, "how about we rephrase your question? That can be taken mean." The students have always replied back with a new quick question. I think redirection at an early age works. I can see that racism isn't talked about. But it is first grade. I know it's brought up later in schooling. For now, bullying and teasing are spoken about. Which is a great start to the young minds. 

My teachers hold her kids to a high standard. In learning and in respect. I think most teachers do. Standardized testing on the other hand, I know she doesn't care for it. I believe its because her son is autistic. So he doesn't do well with them. My autistic son also doesn't do well on testing. Part of his IEP is to choose his tester. And this does help his scores. But a lot of parents don't think to ask for little things like this on their children's IEPs.