Since my time in classrooms here have been different from my peers and I have also been able to observe classrooms, I have taken away three different perspectives that will help me in my future teaching career. For example, it is great to have a ice breakers before really digging down into learning. If a student doesn't feel comfortable or like they can trust you, it's hard to get much accomplished. It is also good to have hands on activities or games. Many students especially in elementary love learning most when they feel like they aren't learning at all and I think that was the same for us college students. I don't see myself drilling them with information and speaking at my students so to say. I know some people have a hard time learning and when something is repeated to them louder and slower, it doesn't help. A teacher needs to be willing to break things down or explain them in a different way-- there are many different kinds of learners so it's good for a teacher to be flexible and learn/ try to accommodate all of them to the best of their ability. 
Most importantly, I learned to be more empathic and have more patience. The empathy was learned every day whether I was at the grocery store, in the classroom with students, or in my classroom with my Spanish teacher. I learned to empathize because they were willing to work with my Spanish as I was with their English. As my Spanish was far from perfect so was their English and we worked with it. The students I worked with didn't have perfect sentence structure, etc., but I didn't expect them to. I worked a lot on revoicing and basic vocabulary that would help them in the future. I feel that's important. When they would speak in English, I didn't want to scold them because they were trying and that was the important part.
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