When it comes to school, you have two options: you either hate it or love it. The ones who hate school kick, scream and cry rabidly as their parents leave them. They often sit at the door until their parents get to their cars, and they realize that they are not going to return. On the other hand, you have those who live to learn, commonly known as “social butterflies” or “teacher’s pets”. There is always one classmate everyone despises because they can never sit down and be quiet. If the teacher asks a question, they are the first to raise their hands. Does she need a volunteer? Do not worry, they have already got it covered. That wonderfully obnoxious child just so happened to be me. As most kids referred to it, the “big …show more content…
They were all anticipating the activities that were to come during the day. Like most classes, our classroom was vibrantly colored. It looked much like a catalogue editorial. Anything you could name, we had it: easels, cubbyholes with cute little name tags on them and brand-spanking new kitchen sets, loaded with utensils, pots and food. I could tell everyone was trembling with curiosity on the inside. However, I was just the only one expressing it. Like most five year old girls, I had no problem blabber mouthing. I could talk a mile per minute if you let me. “What are we coloring? Can we draw anything? Do you have pink paper,” I asked .She stared at me in awe while trying to comprehend all of my questions before she stated, “Just give me a minute, you will see.” I spent most of my time trailing behind Ms.Knowles, while my classmates would be in stations doing activities. Where ever she moved, I was there, stuck to her like glue. We talked about practically everything. I would often find myself telling her about my baby brother. “Sometimes when my baby brother takes my dollies, I cry. I don’t like when he does that,” I exclaimed. After I would talk continuously for a few minutes, Ms.Knowles would ignore me. If we weren’t talking about dolls or princesses then I was raising my hand. Once everyone adjusted, it became an issue amongst my classmates when I raised my hand to volunteer for everything. The class would fill with pouting faces
I remember the first day I walked into my kindergarten class, I clenched my mother’s hand with all my might to prevent her from letting go. The kids around me, whom I supposed were my classmates, had long let go of their mother’s had and were playing together, and even as a five year old, at that point I felt like an outsider. I pleaded my mom to not leave but my attempts failed as I found myself alone yet surrounded by complete strangers. As I stood in the center of the room while pushing back my tears and eyeing my mother make her way out the door, I heard the teacher call my name. I timidly walked towards the spot on the yellow carpet she was signaling at for me to sit on. I heard Mrs. Ross’s soothing voice but no matter how much I concentrated
Describe a strategy from outside your organization – or even the education sector – that could radically improve the American preK-12 education system
At 1:00 p.m. I entered into Evoline C. West Elementary school on Thursday, July 12 2012 for an interview with Mrs. Yolanda Lawrence. As I entered the classroom, I was greeted by Mrs. Lawrence, the head teacher in this classroom. Mrs. Lawrence has no assistant at this present because of it being in the summer. After I entered into the classroom, the entire class welcomed me with “hello Ms. Flournoy”. It made my day to see all of those smiley faces greeting me. This was a 2nd grade classroom which consisted of 17 students of which 8 were girls and 9 were boys. This interview and observation was a total of 2
As I am walking down the hall to Ms.Johnson’s room, I see something different. There is a sub today. I just really hope she isn’t as mean as she looks. When I walk into the classroom I get my folder and go to my assigned seat to start my “do now”. When the teacher walks in she says,”Everyone sit down and don’t make a noise unless you want a step!”
“Play is developmentally appropriate for primary-age children and can provide them with opportunities that enrich the learning experience” (Copple & Bredekamp 2009). Early childhood education holds two main focuses; a child-based focus and a family-based focus. Early childhood education has positive outcomes on the child through their learning experiences, and their growth and development. Based on the family, the results of early education happen through the communication that the family has with the educators and by the encouragement they get from within themselves, and also from the educators.
Today was my first day in my elementary education field placement, which was in Kindergarten. I did not know what to expect in the Kindergarten classroom, so I went with my knowledge learned from my textbooks. The classroom was a warm and inviting room that made you feel happy and comfortable. The classroom was filled with brightly colored posters that pertained to many different academic content such as a number line, an alphabet, a calendar, different vin diagram charts, how to make words by letters chart, math procedures, ways to read, need to know words, how to sound out words, and a behavior chart. The room was like a magic learning palace.
Part 1: To be perfectly honest, I’ve never had a time where I have felt very isolated or very included in a school setting, well not a time that is particularly memorable. But, from talking to my friend, Caroline, she remembers her senior year of high school she was had a writing class and the majority kids in that class were the “cool/popular kids.” She recalls many instances where her teacher, Mrs. Upadhyay, would mock or make fun of the questions she would ask or the comments she would make in class. There was one instance where there were a group of popular boys in class and they were insanely chatty. Her teacher never asked them to stop talking but when Caroline turned to her partner to ask a question she was immediately called out. Another instance was when Mrs. Upadhyay was lecturing and a lightbulb went off in Caroline’s head. She thought she would say something that would really impress the class and help them understand the lecture. She raised her hand, when her teacher saw it instead of calling on her she chose to ignore her. Caroline thought it was okay though, she would wait until Mrs. Upadhyay was finished. Shortly there after, a popular boy raised his hand and she stopped her lecture to call on him. Caroline was completely appalled by this. She immediately cut off the
During this observation I observed a young girl who we will call “Kayla” she was working on her daily journal. I asked the teacher if it would be okay if I asked “Kayla” to tell me a story about her journal page and then have her act it out with a few friends the teacher was actually very excited about this. So when I asked “Kayla” to tell me a story about the time she and her family went to the beach she was super excited I told her I was going to write it down so we could act it out later.
Starting the day started off by waiting in my seat a 3rd-grade classroom at River View Elementary taught by Mrs. Course. Surrounded by the same people every day waiting in agony to get called out of the classroom. It was thoughtful of the teachers to let me leave almost every day, so I could gain help with reading during the time everyone else was reading with the teacher. Although leaving early every day left me wondering if anyone notices. The teacher walks up to me and says “Shaylee it’s time to go.” After that worry, the other 3rd graders will notice I abandon the classroom seeps into my thoughts. The volcano of questions starts to explode, creating inquiry thoughts of “What if they make fun of me?”, “Where did you
The classroom was not how I had expected it to be. I was immediately surrounded by a sea of blue. The turquoise painted walls were like the Caribbean, calm, peaceful, and relaxing. There were thousands of miscellaneous objects lying all around the room. On the left side of the classroom was a corner of books, stacked nearly all the way to the ceiling. On the back table, a wooden bowl of red peppermint candies
The students were very excited that none of them messed up on sounding it out. Then after all that was done, they did another circle and sounded out diagraphs and trigraphs. Mrs. Colorful seemed to know all about these and how to teach them to the students. The students were very knowledgeable about diagraphs and trigraphs they seemed to think it’s simple. Afterward, the student went to their seat and grabbed a textbook from their desk and opened it to a little short story. Then the teacher picked out a random student and they read out loud. When they first started the school year, I was told that they started with four pages to read. It has been about half a year and now they are reading about 12 pages together. This tactic seemed to work for the children, since they all seem to read somewhat fluently. Therefore, Mrs. Colorful was teaching very effectively and looked like she understood the state content and performance standard for TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills). Observing this content could help me with teach elementary students because of Mrs. Colorful’s great ideas in instructing her students on what to do. For instance, the things she taught in the circle was an amazing way for students to learn in an interactive way.
Middle childhood is defined a number of ways, but perhaps best defined as the ages 6 to 12 years of age or prepubescent to pubescence Middle childhood is a challenging time and a major challenge is social constructs, as this is the earliest time when children begin to move away from parental influences and establish more meaningful peer and other adult relationships. It signifies a new set of social contacts with adults and other children as well as a wider variety of settings than those that characterize early childhood. Children begin to see themselves as a part of a bigger whole. Peer influences can become more powerful than the adults in the children’s life and impact their sense of self. Grouping is established and teasing of others
It has been well established that early childhood is a crucial time for children’s cognitive development (Bowman, Donovan & Burns, 2001). Preschool curriculum is the entire span of lessons and teachings that a child will be taught during the course of a preschool year (Rock, 2015). Preschool curriculum covers a wide variety of academic, social, physical, and emotional lessons and usually vary from school to school and teaching method to teaching method. Depending upon the school and the preschool philosophy employed by the preschool, the preschool curriculum can be developed by administrators, teachers, and parents.
the end of the week some of them could to these tasks. I also helped
Everyone has his or her own first day of kindergarten experiences. Some might have been more memorable while others still trying to forget. Mine was merely an observance and evaluation period. After I gave my mother a kiss goodbye, and placed my belongings in the cubbyhole I was ready to learn, but unfortunately the majority of the other students were not. Considering one can not get too accomplished over many loud high-pitched cries, I was forced to be patient and suffer silently from boredom.