Over the course of the semester, I have spent time serving at Orchard Hill Elementary. This school is comprised of 400+ students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade. The class sizes range from eighteen to twenty eight students. The students receive support from several aspects of the school. Most attendees are residing within the school district’s line designated within Cedar Falls, IA. The families involved include, but are not limited to, low income households.
Orchard Hill exists to supplement young minds in their learning, behavior, and skills. The organization fosters a positive and safe environment that offers a multitude of opportunities for those involved. This community needs to exist so that the youth are granted a quality education. This includes mastering basic academic skills, fulfilling basic needs, and boosting overall growth and development. All of these factors contribute to the importance of the agency and its value to our society. There would be a significant lack of order, understanding, and perspective without the schooling system in place. Primary school is one of the first new places that children are allowed to branch out and explore similarities and differences from their home experience. This simple fact reminds society that our first moments of learned behavior and cultural backgrounds become questioned and cemented in the educational realm.
The work done by the organization is extremely important to me. I feel most intrigued by the
Education has existed throughout history in one form or another. The process of passing down accumulated information from one generation to the next has been present in every human society, past and present. From the young listening to the stories of the elders around the hearths of the ancient world, to pupils being instructed in the alphabet in a one room schoolhouse on the American frontier, to the present day online teaching sessions; the tradition of teaching and learning has been a constant in the ever changing world. Education has been and continues to be used for many purposes, chief among them being the creation of an educated citizenry, the empowerment of that citizenry, and improvement of the
For the past 17 years, Elk Mound has been my home. When most people drive through the village on highway 12, they glance ahead, not noticing the community around them. The people living, working, or attending school here are not only my friends, but in a way, my family. I have grown up with people who have more in common with my rather than just where we live. There are 66 young adults in my class today, and I have known everyone’s name since first grade. Attending a small high school has given me multiple opportunities to join a variety of clubs. If I am playing a basketball game, running in a meet, or participating at the State Academic Decathlon meet, I see familiar faces from my community. The support of a small community is personal. Since
In the past two years, I've had the privilege of volunteering at the "Ready for School" event at Faith Lutheran Church in Arlington Heights. Ready for School, or more commonly known as "Backpack Day", is an event where Arlington Heights school districts and other community members help fund to purchase school supplies for under privileged students in Arlington Heights. In addition, on the day of the event there are multiple community services, such as the police and fire departments, the library and park district in attendance to help families understand the resources they offer. The numbers of families and students that attend increase each year, this year with over 600 backpacks.
Currently, I am student teaching at Alfred E. Zampella PS #27 School in the district of Jersey City. The school is located in a busy city, next to John F. Kennedy St. which is especially busy in the morning and during rush hour. This results in several late students on a day to day basis. On the other hand, this school is also highly accessible and as a little over a thousand students. The school has grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade, and has a mix of general, special, and inclusion education classrooms. Typically, families that enroll their students into this school are of lower-middle socio-economic class, and tend to be majority Hispanic, Indian, and African American, with few Caucasians and Asians. This school provides a variety of special programs for their ESL students and special need students. Students may be offered speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ESL programs, reading recovery, and counseling.
Grant Elementary School’s mission is to create and build an integrated learning community based upon the principles of dignity, competence, individual achievement and preparing students for the future. My role at Grant School is to assist the Guidance Counselor in providing individual and group counseling to “at-risk” students who need additional support in an effort to address any barriers that interfere with success at school. Grant is a one-site school district located five miles southeast of Redding CA in the community of Centerville. The school serves approximately 125 preschool students and 655 K-8 students. The Centerville area is a rural setting featuring a real estate market with housing variety and available acreage. Many professional families choose to reside within the Grant attendance boundaries because of Grant’s high academic standards. Grant also attracts students from outside the attendance area. Over 57% of the children enrolled at Grant live outside the district’s boundaries. 79% of the student population is Caucasian, 9% Hispanic, 6% two or more races, 3% Asian, 2% American Indian and .5% African American, and 16% students participate in a free or reduced-cost lunch program. Counseling services were recently implemented this year at Grant School as a result of funding made available through Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP).
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.
Allentown School District strives to provide students with an individualized academic plan to prepare them for graduation and “success in post-secondary education or a job paying a family sustaining job” (ASD). By looking at the vision of the district, it is evident that the school is a key factor to better the future of the surrounding community. The surrounding community does not have a
Despite this, the school has garnered attention from other districts looking to improve schools, and there are promising developments. The school has moved from “Academic Emergency” to “Continuous Improvement” status, and more neighborhood children received high school diplomas in 3 years than in the last 85 years total (Cincinnati Public Schools, n.d.). Oyler’s commitment to overall health of the students can serve as a model for other school
Dingess Elementary School is a Pre-K through fourth grade school with one hundred seventy-five students currently enrolled. We currently house one preschool special needs classroom and one Head Start classroom, two kindergarten classrooms, one first grade classroom, one first second grade split classroom, one second grade classroom, two third grade classrooms and one fourth grade classrooms (ten classrooms total). We have one full time music teacher, one special education teacher, and because of Title I funding we have one Instructional Coach, Title I teacher, and Sonday Instructor. We have a library assistant, a Title I parent coordinator on staff as well. We have a speech language pathologist two days a week and several itinerant
Although demographics are excellent, there are still learning challenges that confronting the learning community. For example - 10 students and their families recently joined the school after migrating from overseas. These students and their families require a range of
Meadow View Elementary School is my practicum agency. The assigned unit is the Family Resource Center (FRC) which is a government funded agency. While completing the practicum students are required to fulfill the nine competences listed in the syllabus. The requirement for the competences led to me fulfilling various roles such as, being a broker, an educator, and a facilitator. The primary goal of these centers is to remove nonacademic barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success. The mission is to enhance students’ ability to succeed in school by developing and sustaining partnerships that promote early learning and successful transition to school, academic achievement and well-being, and graduation and transition into
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required to learn from the time we enter school and many times beyond the time
In almost every culture and in all parts of the world, getting an education is valuable to a person’s future. But what is it that makes education so valuable? What is the purpose of an education starting from the early stages of a child’s development into adolescents, and from adolescents into adulthood?
Education is a very important aspect of the lives of all people all over the world. What we learn, not just in the classroom, shapes who we are. We take our education everywhere we go. We use it when talking to our buddies about sports or music, we use it while solving a math problem, we use our education while debating with our family whether or not we should watch TV or go to the movies. Our education is the foundation of who we are, since every decision we make and every thought we think is dependent on what we know. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone craved learning to such a degree that at lunch tables all over the world the topic of conversation isn't who likes who, or how drunk