Ariel Cummer

Child Development and The Learning Process

Shelley Kokorudz
December 8, 2020
Who Are My Students?
As a university student in the Bachelor of Education Program. I am on my way to be the

next generation of teachers. This question about “who are my students”, I believe is a very

important question to even begin to ask ourselves now. During my course called Child

Development and The Learning Process. I learnt a lot about how children develop, learn, learn

with disabilities, the causes of negative impacts and what it does to children at school. I could go

on and on if I had to, in a classroom every child that walks through your door is going to be so

different in everyway. No child will be the same so that’s why this question is so big and

important to discuss before you become a teacher.

Once I began to take some time and reflect back on this class. There are a various amount

of ideas that come back to me that may lead me to the question, “who are my students”? There

are a few that I found in my own personal belief though, to be the biggest ones that would shape

a child in a classroom environment. The first one that came to my mind was divorce and

separation of two parents in a child’s life. Each and every kid that’s steps through my door is

going to deal with this differently. We learnt in this class that divorce seems to have less of an

impact on younger kids then middle age kids, but that’s not saying the younger ones won’t be

affected. It just means that they deal with it in a different way. As a teacher I think this is a big

thing to be aware of as divorce becomes more and more common in our generation. If we know

of a family that is having an issue with divorce as teachers, we can look for signs in a child in our
classroom. It may be the reason why a little girl is sad all the time, or gets angry, if we know this,

we will be able to be a little more supportive and understanding of the child.

Another topic that we discussed in class was learning disabilities, and just disabilities in

general. If you have a child in your classroom that has a disability the worst thing to do is

exclude them from the classroom. These children are just like every other that is in your

classroom, they are no different. As teachers what we should be doing is for example if the child

can’t read on their own, then just read to the whole classroom. Make your classroom where

children feel welcomed, valued, and not singled out.

In conclusion all I am trying to get at or say, is each and every child will be different. No

child is going to be the same, they will learn differently, have different struggles. At the end of

the day though all that matters is that you as a teacher gave it your all. You gave some advice to

the little girl who got a little to mad at her friend, etc. As educators we need to create an

environment that welcomes each and every kid, because remember no kid is the same!