Response to Attention and Emotions videos

I currently teach students who learn differently how to read, read fluently, and/or understand what they have read. I am usually fairly patient with these kids, however, I do occasionally experience frustration instructing a child who is unable to completely receive a single complex question / instruction. I feel like this lesson's topics will help me to remain forever patient. I will continue to be patient because it will encourage the child's attention to adapt and develop. My continued patience might also make each child feel less stressful, thereby reducing brain toxicity, thereby promoting brain development and growth. 

I keep picturing toxic chemicals flooding a stressed brain. I wonder if the process perpetuates itself. Hmm...

Vision and Hearing videos

The overarching message that I received from these two videos was that vision and hearing issues need to be addressed as soon as possible. As a teacher, it will be my job to help identify such problems, so that the child can get any problems corrected (if possible). It might also be important to safeguard the vision and hearing of students (picture the very young). For example: I can remember being instructed not to look at the sun during an eclipse; had that wonderful teacher of mine forgotten, I might have seriously damaged my vision looking at the strange phenomena.

After watching the videos on brain architecture, plasticity, and understanding the impact of the environment on a child, how does this information impact you as a teacher?

As a teacher, I assume a highly influential role in a child's development. It is the responsibility of a teacher to cultivate potential through appropriate / effective instruction. Part of effectively accomplishing that goal is understanding the role of a teacher in the greater scheme of education: each teacher can be seen as establishing an individual building block in a child's brain function. Each block needs to be placed with precision, thereby allowing the precise placement of additional learning / experience blocks, etc.