>> One of the nice things about the Early Education degree and the beautiful thing
about it is is that it can be used for different things.
It's really versatile.
And it can be transferred over to if you only want to teach from kindergarten to third grade,
it can be transferred over to if you want to work with special needs.
It could be transferred over to if you just want to work with children from birth
to a certain age and work in a preschool environment.
Or you can work with an accredited preschool and just work in a 4K environment
and this school provides that way better, in my opinion, if you went here and a four-year
as opposed to strictly going to a four-year.
I think you have to be fluid and I'm actually stealing that from Bruce Lee.
[Laughs]. So he was asked one time, "What is your philosophy on life?"
And he goes, "Be water," and he goes,
"When water is in a teacup, it takes the form of a cup.
When it's in a pot, it takes the form of a pot.
But it's still water.
Be water."
I'd say the same thing.
I think being fluid you have to have that kind of attitude.
If you're rigid, you're going to break because the wind is constantly blowing in a classroom.
The attitudes are coming.
You're getting bombarded with a lot of things.
The administration wants you to do this and that.
Teachers want to do this and that.
You're constantly getting bumped.
You can't go out for recess when you wanted to.
You can't go ahead and go to hit a certain part of your curriculum that you wanted to.
And things are constantly in flux.
And you have to be able to ask for help.
You have to be humble.
You have to own your mistakes.
You have to be humble.
I think you need to be a constant learner.
If you're not going back to college, I think you need to be going to workshops,
reading scholarly articles, maybe even just watching programs on TV, and/or TED Talks.
I've known people that were interested in going into special ed and they had never worked
with it before and they had been probably like ten years in a classroom
without having worked with special ed.
And they will sometimes take some time from their regular duties and maybe sit
in on a session with an IEP, or sit in in the special ed room
and see if that maybe be of interest.
So just be open.