My Classroom Placement

The placement I have been in has been a lot of help to me in giving me a better understanding of teaching. It has not just given me experience in a classroom, but experience in one different from the one I have gone to before when I was a student. For this placement, I have been assigned to a social studies classroom at Morris Area Secondary, specifically to a 9th-grade civics class. Their teacher, Mrs. Rinkenberger, who also teaches 11th-grade American History, is well-liked and respected by her class and she has learned to incorporate a lot of non-traditional curriculum into her class.
Morris Area Secondary is a public high school in Morris, MN. The school has four hundred and ninety-five students enrolled, making it a pretty small school. Among those students, eighty-nine percent are white, and five percent are Hispanic. It has seven class periods with each one being around fifty minutes long, along with time set aside for both breakfast and lunch. As far as students with special needs are concerned, two percent are English learners, seventeen percent need special education, and twenty-four percent are on free or reduced lunch. On a …show more content…
Rinkenberger come from a religious background. Specifically the religion of Christianity, which isn’t surprising since Christianity is the largest religion in the United States. When asked what institutions were most important to them, several students said church, thus showing the significance that their religion has on their lives. Knowing what their religious background is can be helpful for teachers because it helps give a better picture of the student’s worldview and thus the lens through which they interpret things. Churches also tend to have valuable resources or connections to them, which could help a student if they needed help with anything from poverty to looking for relationship