Blog post # 8

 My experience with service learning has been really beneficial so far. I have had a lot of awesome opportunities in the classroom to teach and learn a lot about teaching. I have been connecting both the course learning with my service learning experiences. I really enjoy this course and being able to get real life experience as well. I have applied respecting the children into my service learning. I really love the children I get to work with. They are all so smart and so amazing. I have grown a really great appreciation for teachers all around the world. Taking this course and participating in service learning has just made me more certain the I want to be a teacher. 

The blogging is defiantly a good way to keep track of my progress and be able to look back at how far I have come in the course and in my service learning. I was kinda scared going into the classroom, I have been in one before but never been serious about wanting to be a teacher so it felt different. My teacher has a lot of trust in me and lets me teach the kids on my own. By doing this I have gotten so much experience and I have been able to improve my understating and ways of teaching. 

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