The Individual Student

"What is the role of the individual student in your class room?"

When I read this question, the first response that popped into my mind was that the individual student is the most important aspect to the classroom. The individual student is why we are teachers, why we feel passionate to do what we do, and the reason the class exists. It is hard, at the same time, to constantly have that perspective when the classroom is made up of about of 25 or so individuals. The pressure to keep the class running smoothly and to get everything accomplished within the allotted time give a day, is what makes the focus on in the individual student to be blurred at times. Never the less, individual student needs to be where our attention is.