Daniel O'Connell Blog on EDU 2650

  Mindfulness has become an essential part of teaching in the modern classroom and it is needed in order to properly engage the classroom. Mindfulness is a way in which an individual can properly gather their thoughts before blurting out whatever is on their mind and negatively hurting someone's feelings. This can be used by both teachers and students in the classroom. Mindfulness is essential to teachers nowadays to make sure we are properly addressing all students, for example by the proper pronouns. In the modern world people have started to take offense to being misgendered so we want to make sure as future educators we practice mindfulness and take everyone's feelings into consideration. Mindfulness can also be valuable in addressing students who are misbehaving, these types of students can easily aggravate the teacher but by practicing mindfulness we can best address the situation as we seek fit rather than having an outburst and making the situation worse. I have previ

  Poverty is something a child can unfortunately be subjected to and as future teachers depending on the school district we are most likely going to come in contact with a child who is less fortunate than others. This is a sad reality that comes with being a teacher. The possibility of homeless students is even a possibility which I was surprised to learn about. The challenges these students face is unfair as every child shouldn't have to worry about the next time they are going to eat. Some more recent challenges homeless students have had to face was online learning during the pandemic. I couldn’t even imagine the challenge that must have been trying to join zoom calls when you probably don’t have enough money for a laptop to join zoom with. Just the fact that it was called “AT HOME LEARNING” and they didn’t even have a home is extremely sad.  During the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to remote and hybrid learning, homeless students faced tremendous challenges as they s