In my service learning placement, I have seen some things that have come from the history of education. As I have been in the classroom, the class that I am in is predominately girls. There are definitely more girls than boys in this classroom, which would not have been the case a couple hundred years ago. In addition to this, the fact that it is an elementary school classroom is also important. These children are just getting to the most important part of schooling, where they are learning more application of the things that they are learning, which in turn will help them when they are older. So girls being able to be in school instead of just the home, and having an education as a child is a great step that was taken by brave people in the past.
Since I studies Sputnik in the past assignment, I have noticed the sciences and math aspects of the classroom. The students love to get in there and do experiments themselves instead of just having the teacher do it. Today, for example, the students got magnets and a material and used the magnet to see how many paperclips the magnet would move. They loved it. They had general instructions, then they were on their own to determine the ones that were stronger than others.
I have loved being able to see these aspects of history in the classroom, and I am definitely trying to learn from the past so that my future students are able to love learning, because it is a privilege to be able to go to school and learn as part of their daily lives.
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