The Contribution Of Our Middle School

Many of their learning needs are similar to those of other children and young people learning in our schools. However, these learners also have distinct and different needs from other learners by virtue of the fact that they are learning in and through another language, and that they come from cultural backgrounds and communities with different understandings and expectations of education, language and learning”. (NALDIC, 1999).

Miss Kane’s first grade class at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School (also known as Coates Elementary) has twenty students and seventeen of them are considered English Language Learners (ELL) (E. Kane, Personal Communication, October 4, 2016). This is very frustrating for both Miss. Kane and her students because it is very difficult to communicate with many of her ELLs. Out of Miss Kane’s twenty students eight students are Hispanic, five Indian, five Black, and three White. Miss Kane’s class is very diverse and this allows students to feel more accepted because not all students are similar. Coates Elementary as a whole is very diverse: Asian 28.86%, Black 18.26%, Hispanic 37.32%, and White 12.08% (Fairfax County Public Schools, 2015). Miss Kane’s classroom reflects similar diversity as Coates Elementary does. Both Miss. Kane and the Coates staff really show their appreciation for diversity and attempt to treat all children equally giving all students equal opportunity. Coates Elementary is a Title I school; about fifty percent of students receive free and reduced lunch (Fairfax County Public Schools, 2015). This school was placed in the center of poverty and many of these students who participate in the free and reduced lunch program are English Language Learners.

42. Describe the specific activities WD funding would be used to support, and the impact WD funding would have on this project. (Maximum of 2500 characters including spaces).

Many kids in today’s world are not learning enough to be able to live in the global economy and according to David Boren, the former U.S. Senator, “Not training our kids to be able to work and live in an international environment is like leaving them illiterate” (182). The best way to learn a culture is to study the language and devote time where the language is important. Learning a foreign language rises, brain growth, yet fewer American schools offer it. To

Many students worry about how their middle school years will go. Middle school is a very important part of a student’s education. Middle school is their initiation into high school and could really impact their future. Many elementary school students think that they are prepared and can do well in middle school, but many are not ready. Also, students who do not do well in middle school tend to not do well in high school. One lesson I would like to teach elementary school students is how to survive middle school, which is important because it will lead them to a better future by being prepared, managing time, and knowing how to problem solve.

This is a profile of the school community for North Vista Elementary school. I have taught at this school for over ten years and served on the PTA Executive Board for three years. My children attend this school as well. Information for this assignment was gathered from online sources, news articles, phone interviews, and personal experience. Florence School District One is a diverse school district as a whole, and that diversity is a result of the merging of various communities within Florence School District One. For this assignment, I will focus on the North Florence community where my school is situated. The North Florence community has always been one of the poorest communities in Florence.

For me, middle school was probably the most excruciating years of my life. I thought it was only me and everyone else had it easy and completely understood everything that was happening to their bodies and minds. In fact, I still have dreams about my middle school years like forgetting my locker combination or hiding in the bathroom stall because the most popular girls were gossiping about a friend of yours. The settings in these dreams are always my middle school; I find it amazing that thirty years after I attended school that I can remember vivid details about the layout, hallways, lockers, and teachers. The reason for this I believe is that for ALL students the middle school years are the most influential to shaping and becoming who a person is and who they wish to become. Middle schools are essential for the success of students because of the unique developmental stages of these students. For teachers, comprehension of young adolescent development is key to understanding the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and moral needs and interests of these students (Powell, 2015, p. 55) and also teachers need to develop a curriculum that is focused on developing students competence in all subject matter and using their knowledge and available resources to design, implement, and evaluate challenging, responsive curriculums that result in meaningful learning outcomes (Powell, 2015, p. 145). All students should feel that they are accepted for who he or she is as an

Primary strengths for new development: The staff within this organization is kind, compassionate, and committed to the students and the Williamstown community. Striving to meet their students’ needs creates a closer, safer and more respectful school community. However, Williamstown Middle School is a Title 1 School. This school has a large population of at-risk students due to homelessness, learning disabilities, neglect, and limited English proficiency with students relocating from many different countries. At-risk students are entitled to receive Title 1 funding to help support their educational goals under the No Child Left Behind Act. The initial concentration at this school is to be able to provide the necessary resources to parents and

On Monday, October 5, 2015, I spent the day attending a data workshop that was conducted by Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson is currently the principal of a local middle school. The purpose of this meeting was to gain information and strategies on how to effectively implement data within the building. During the workshop, Mrs. Johnson provided us with a vast amount of information that could change one’s vision and process of how to effectively run a school based on data. When reflecting on this meeting I have summed up my experience into two categories: Own it and Inspect what you expect.

I wanted to reach out to you before the 2018-2019 contracts being sent out. I am so thankful for the opportunity you have given me this year. The chance to be in a middle school classroom has been an unexpected blessing. At the start of this year, I was nervous and, to be honest, a little scared. By the end of the first month, I realized this is where I have needed to be. Throughout the year, I have really grown in my role which has given me a whole new level of confidence. I have never loved what I am doing more than this year and for that; I am eternally grateful. This year with Brooke’s guidance, I have been able to assert myself in the classroom. My daily/ weekly responsibilities are: taking attendance, creating all the homework

I can remember being in middle school, when I invited a friend over to my house, naturally we ran and played all day until we decided to build a fort in the woods behind my house. We would go about finding fallen limbs and heavy rocks to stack up in a prehistoric style structure. Barely fifteen minutes into our excursion had I noticed that I was the only one of the two of us who was working. In that moment, I understood why my mother had me work so much as a child. She wasn’t being a sadistic slave driver like I had thought; instead she was teaching me a valuable lesson: how to work. To this day, that is the most important lesson I have ever learned.

It feels weird not being the big man anymore I had a good run while it lasted. I accomplished many things in middle school, one is I passed all of my classes throughout the whole year. Another is I made all of my sports team (Football,Basketball and baseball) and played a lot of minutes in each of my 3 sports. Last I made a AAU basketball team which went on for most of the spring season I met a lot of new people through that and had a great time. I have accomplished many things in eighth grade and will continue as the road goes on.

In middle school, the relationship I had with my grandfather was one which was unbreakable. Even though he did not live in the same state, and I had both of my parents in the home he was always there for me. We place bets with each other over sporting events, like the World Series or the NBA Final, and the loser had to pay up whenever we were together again. Because I lived in North Carolina and he lived in upstate New York, we only saw each other once or twice a year, but he made we had together the most enjoyable. When my family would make the trip to New York I could not wait to see him because we talked about the various thing we were going to do when we were finally together, things like going to restaurants, going to amusment parks, and going to the mall. As a young child, these were all things you love to do, and he would make these events family outings, so all my cousins who were around the same age would come as well. This brought our family very close. While he was alive I was played every sport, and excelled in most of them. I enjoyed golf in particular because it was a sport my grandfather never really played, making him fascinated in every aspect of the sport. Although I was a superb athlete, I was good student as well. I made honor every year and that was what made him the proudest. Of all his grandchildren, there were only a few of us who excelled in school, and he incentivized us to keep up the good work by giving us money. Needless to say, there was not a

Brief summary description of the project proposal: Describe problem addressed, proposed solution, expected results, intended beneficiaries and reason(s) why assistance is requested from the Voluntary Fund.

Language is one of mankind’s most powerful inventions. From the scribbles in caves, thousand-page stories of a French Revolution, to men and women standing in front of thousands eager to listen; the written, spoken, and orations of language is a vital component of the human experience. Interestingly, the greater an individual’s mastery of language the greater his or her ability to understand the world itself, and more importantly those that live on it. The following is going to be an in-depth analysis of the impact multilingualism has on an individual’s perception, exposure, and appreciation of foreign cultures.