I am in my senior year of college and will graduate in May with a degree in Secondary History and Government Education, a History minor, and an endorsement in Special Education. When deciding to go into the education field, special education was always the direction I planned to go. While I think about my future goals, graduation is in the near future and I would like to receive a position in a high school as a special education teacher upon graduation with my endorsement. Through my own experiences assisting in the special education classroom at my high school, I was a part of a system that didn’t provide students with a beneficial opportunity to learn and I want to be a part of a community to change this. After spending the past year working at the Center for Research on Learning, I have learned much more about the research process and the many different advances being made in education. This has given me an entirely new outlook on where I would like to be in the…