Reflection Paper Number 7

Before a painter begins his masterpiece, he has a vision in his head of what he wants it to look like. Once the vision is there, the painter then faces a blank landscape where he begins to create this masterpiece that he envisions. As the painter paints, he controls exactly what he wants to use with the many different color schemes that are placed before him. It is his job to use every color in their own particular way to create this wonderful masterpiece. If the painter missteps or confuses two of the colors, it is his responsibility to work with each color so that each color has its own essence in the masterpiece. The only way that the painter can reach this particular piece, will only be through the inclusion of every aspect and color that will eventually create this piece.
The painter is synonymous with a teacher running a classroom. The masterpiece is every teachers view and goal of what they envision their classroom to be. The landscape is the room that the teacher has to work with in order to create that goal, and the different color schemes are the many different students that are integrated into that one room.
When a teacher is put into a classroom setting, that particular setting is their landscape that they can do anything they want with it. This landscape should include the importance of including every single individual that is in that particular environment.
The teacher must do this through many different aspects of the classroom. As the teacher begins he should attempt to understand each individual from the beginning, because each student is coming into this new environment that they are not accustomed to. It is the teacher’s duty to create a certain atmosphere for each student to feel that comfortability.
The way the teacher can attempt to do this, should be through the understanding exactly what stereotyping is. The knowledge of understanding that each child is their own entity without any strings attached is crucial to the teacher especially in the classroom, and this will eventually be the type of atmosphere that each student will have towards each other. The classroom though, should definitely never have this idea of stereotyping because there is no good that comes from it.
In order to have this idea of stereotyping out of the picture, the teacher must attempt to create a feeling of acceptance to each particular student in the classroom. This idea of acceptance only comes through the inclusion of each student in every aspect of the classroom. This feeling that the teacher will hopefully create will affect the environment of how the material is learned and the ability to have that type of control that is required to have in the classroom. This idea of setting up rules and regulations and not having this idea of stereotyping is crucial for each and every student so that the idea of acceptance is there. Once the student has this feeling of acceptance, then the student will not feel limited to accomplish their goal in life. This just stresses the importance of a good teacher. Just as the painter needs to have the understanding and knowledge to be able to create an unbelievable masterpiece that people can benefit from in the future, so too the teacher needs to be able to have this same type of concept to send out students into the world to accomplish what they are supposed to be accomplishing.