Mr. Johnson Presentation

In the presentatition given by Mr. Johnson i learned that teaching changes everyday... from year to year. He mentioned how meeting the needs of children with specific needs is constantly changing, and that he only had one special education course throughout his college career. He said its not only working with the child with a disablilty but also working with other kids in the classroom on how to handel certin circumstances. He mentioned that test scores and how well children do on those tests dictates your job. Your held to a standard and these test scores drive everything. His biggest thing was to just be repetitive with these kids and work closley with an EBD teahcer.  Its alot of pressure seeing as how parents usually hold you accountable for their childrens responses on tests. He believes that teachers have become more like entertainers then actual teachers... He made it clear that you need to keep their attention and make things intersesting in the classroom, make them want to learn. he also said that he noticed way more paras in the rooms these days, way more then their have ever been before, but he says its nice its like extra help.