My LOTC Project Analysis

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For my LOTC project, I decided to go to Hope Middle School in Holt, MI to spend half a day in my mom’s classroom and help her students with math. These students that my mom teaches have learning disabilities and come in for an hour each day to get extra math help. Even though I am a management for information systems major, I wanted to come into my mom’s classroom because I wanted to get a little glimpse of what it would be like to teach kids especially if they have learning disabilities. I also wanted to go to my mom’s classroom for this LOTC project because I have the interest of being a teacher or professor one day and wanted to see if I would enjoy the classroom setting or not. For the service aspect of this LOTC project, I was able

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