Prompt 7

This experience is shaping my teacher identity more and more each time I visit. I am beginning to think about how I would do things in my own classroom when I see things that the teacher does. I learn new things everytime I visit the classroom. For example, some things I learn are how to teach the kids the alphabet, months of the year, and days of the week using songs they can easily remember. It also is making me become more accepting and familiar with different ethnic backgrounds, because I came from a school where there was mostly white kids and only a small percentage of blacks and hispanics. I not only get to learn from being with the kids, but while the kids are at lunch, I talk with the teacher about a lot of things. She is very open to questions, even though I feel like I am interrupting her work. She explains to me how she does a lot of things. I am learning how to organize easily and how to keep up with all the work, and how to deal with giving attention to all the students equally. I am also learning how to interact with the students' parents, because they frequently come in to talk to the teacher while I am there. I also am learning how to deal with special needs children. One thing I have a question about is the following: There is an autistic child in my classroom who is three years old. He always wants to sit on my lap and sing songs with me to keep him occupied, and my teacher tells me that it is okay to do that because he does it with her all the time. I was told that we couldn't allow the students to sit on our laps. Would this be an exception?