Field Observation Essay

Which author or institution is associated with coining the phrase, “the apartheid of schooling in America.”

I have always associated Andersonville was a little Cuban convenience store a few blocks away from our first apartment. As newcomers to the neighborhood and country, the appeal of the store was in the familiarity of the food and language. The Spanish speaking owner was a familiar voice in an otherwise unfamiliar place. In that store we found a familiar comfort. Like a lot of the stores on that block, they closed or moved. Larger restaurants moved in but failed and many storefronts ended up being empty for a while.

I have conducted background research of the USFS and City of Bozeman through their websites and also finding articles pertaining to the pathway being built for the M. I have found out who is involved and what the certain group is doing to help the project. Also we have looked up the M trailhead on google earth and taken snapshots of it. This helps visualize the area and what needs to be done to build the pathway and underground walkway and also the parking problem. The next thing I need to do is go to the M trailhead and see everything first hand, not just over pictures. Also now that I have some of the stakeholders’ e-mails and phone numbers I need to conduct interviews asking them these 5 potential questions. What would

Throughout my life, I have held a special place in my heart for large animals, especially elephants. They have inspired me by the way they care about their communities. Entire families of elephants comfort their young and have specialized burial rituals for those they loved. This kind of friendship and loving nature can only be found in a community inspired by their very own elephant. Tufts University has a beautiful history surrounding their mascot and I simply want to know more, fueled by my passion for research. Tufts offers a community of elephants that compare to no other.

Last week I asked my contact at the Anchorage School district to send out an email to all the ELL teacher to see if anyone was available to assist me with my field practicum. As of this email no one has responded. Since this month has lot of holidays were school is not in session I became a bit concerned. So I reached out to an English teacher at a private high school who is willing to let me observe her classes. Though the school does not have an English Language Learners program they do have students from Nigeria, Korea, Philippines, and native Alaskan villages. May I please have permission to observe in Mrs. Edmonds class to fulfill the 15 hours for the field practicum?

In order to study human development and perform naturalistic observation I went to the mall. I selected a 9-year-old white girl as the subject for my observation. I observed the subject for 30 minutes. During my observation the subject was not interrupted and was not aware of my study.

The purpose of this observation assignment was to investigate and interpret the different types of interactions between the individuals and groups present, as well as the environment in which these interactions take place. The various power relationships and sense of hierarchy in addition to the status and authority among the different individuals are also extremely pertinent to this assignment, as the dissection of such interactions and relationships may implicate certain socially constructed gender roles placed on these individuals and society as a whole. The field observation was conducted at the restaurant Pancakes on the Rocks in Sydney. The role adopted, was that of observer as participant. Group structures and

On September 8th, I visited our athletic trainer after school for about an hour. During this observation, many athletes’ ankles were wrapped. One of the football players waited to get an ultra sound on his right ankle. An ultrasound is commonly used to look at problems with soft tissue. The ultrasound works by focusing high-frequency sound waves on the specific location on the ankle that contains soft tissue. The sound waves then bounce off the bones and soft tissues and are picked up by the transducer. Chad, the school athletic trainer first put gel on the probe and massaged the athlete’s ankle for about six minutes. After the ultrasound, Chad wrapped both of the athlete’s ankles. He started by putting pre-wrap on the foot and ankle to prevent

This paper is going to describe the behavioral and cognitive traits that can be inferred from that behavior of a two year old child that I observed in the park as she was playing with her mother. The child that I observed is a girl, has blonde hair and is physically well-developed for her age. She is around two, weighs approximately twenty (20) pounds and is about two (2) feet tall.

The field work that I have done was at the Foundation daycare between 9am and 10:30 am. The daycare is next to the Shaar Hashomayim on Metcalfe and Kensington Avenue in Westmount (o). When I first went to the school I went through the courtyard which had cemented pillars and archways (O) as well as a row of plastic play houses of a variety of colours and sizes (O). The doors are all locked therefore I had to ring the Foundation school doorbell (O). The school has 2 stories (O); the first story is where the daycare (O) is and the second floor is where the elementary school (O) is located. There are 6 classrooms (O) and each classroom has a specific age group (O). While walking to the classroom, there are rows of cubbies and hooks along the walls

On January 29, a Friday, I observed as five student workers ate their lunch around the UCI Athletics compound area. It was exactly 12:15 PM, when the student-workers marched into the area and grabbed their lunches. These are my co-workers, so I did not have to do much to blend in. However, I did want to act natural, so I drank from a bottle of water and sat in a chair in the corner of the compound. They were all eating at the same time, because they only had a short time until they had to get back to work. The first person I observed pulled his lunch out of an orange sack, in which he carried all of his items to work. He had a variety of items he brought to snack one. He moved over to one of the carts, and sat in

I want to participate in Bridge II because I could really benefit from the preparatory work for organic chemistry offered through Bridge II. From Bridge II, I hope to gain how to study and do well in the organic chemistry class at Northwestern. I want to be able to improve how I learn and utilize chemistry for not just the organic chemistry class, but also apply the techniques to my other classes and career. As a low income student, I feel a lot of pressure to do well in hard courses like organic chemistry and participating in Bridge II will hopefully relieve some of this stress.

I am currently on our school-wide data team that uses data to find trends within our school population. One trend that became readily apparent to our team this year was that our move-in students were underperforming and that there were large gaps in their data due to the late entry into our building. Therefore, I wanted to delve deeper into this idea of mobility and how it impacts test results. I specifically wanted to look at this across the three middle schools in my district, Gahanna Jefferson Public Schools, because the three districts differ in student populations. I was not surprised by the results but rather reaffirmed in my thinking. I first wanted to see if certain schools would have higher mobility rates than others so I did a comparison of three years to see the percentage of students who were in the

Researchers throughout the world most often conduct practical work in a all natural environment outside their laboratory or office in order to experience in firsthand what it is to live outside the society they have been exposed to all their lives, and integrate into another civilization that imposes cultural traditions and policies that the researcher may have never been imposed to in the past. These types of works or studies that ethnographers conduct are called fieldworks; and they help researchers learn the ways and customs of a certain group or kin outside a society. The researcher’s method of fully understanding the culture of the group of individuals they study is by integrating into their assemblage or

My first day of observations had finally arrived. Filled with excitement, I opened the doors to Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, and walked into the front office to sign in as a guest for the day. I made my way to the second grade wing to do my first observation for my field experience report. The second grade instructor greeted me as I entered her classroom, with a big bright smile I found made her classroom warm and inviting.