Education is like a road trip

 Education Is A Road Trip

I decided to compare education to a long road trip. Time has to be spent planning the destinations and stops along the way. This compares to education in two ways. Teachers spend lots of time planning the curriculum and students have to plan their destinations in life and decide what they want to achieve and go about doing it. They plan their classes based on what they want to be. Then after planning you embark on your journey. The thing is to enjoy your time and soak up as much information as you can at museums, parks, shows, etc. on the way to your destination rather than just hurrying and getting there as fast as you can. In school if you just rush through everything to get through it, your really not helping yourself. You have to enjoy the learning process and make the best of it. In road trips you have time to wonder and reflect and imagine which are essential for children to learn. Also along the way you see new things, meet new people, and learn new facts about the places you stop at. Going to new places broadens your mind and allows you to learn about other places and peoples behaviors etc.

I have learned a lot in this class this semester. But out of everything three points that have stuck with me include:

1. Finding ways to teach students who are all different and being able to suit their individual needs as well as the rest of the class can be a struggle but is necessary to ensure all students have the same opportunity to succeed.
2. Teachers go through many licensure procedures, training, testing, and assesments before becoming a teacher. These include competency tests, performance evaluations, student teaching, authentic assessments, and they have to put together a teachers portfolio.But some schools have such a high demand for teachers, and there aren't enough qualified teachers so they hire people who are not fit for the job which takes away from the students learning experience.
3. Diversity is a large part in schools and teachers need to be able to put away their prior bias opinions and treat every student the same. They can't play favorites, be racist, sexist, and they need to understand how to handle children with disabilities, etc. Many teachers don't realize they take their opinions into the classroom and this can pose problems. To be a good teacher you can't have bias opinions and you need to treat every student as a person regardless of their differences.