Describe Your Placement Setting (Placement)

Describe your placement setting (urban, suburban, etc.)
PS 66 is located in an urban area. The school is located near a wide variety of access to transportation and has limited direct access to outside resources such as libraries. What are the special features of your placement?
Most of the special features of the school focused on special education, enhancing students physical abilities, and STEM. The school offered after school programs for each and had teachers say afterschool to help run the club. Each club featured activities that enhanced student’s knowledge in the field and even offered events to incorporate the parents. For example the club that promotes students abilities the club had an event to teach parents different strategies to get involved with getting their children to exercise and how to make better food choices. Each club was a special feature to the school because it helped to benefit the students in material they were interested in. The school offers special features such as the after school …show more content…
This specific teacher does not just test only for skill performance, but he uses a variety of assessments in order to gauge if his students have an understanding of the topic regardless of ability. I think he manages different abilities in the classroom by considering beforehand the factors that can affect a student’s ability to participate while recognizing how activities can be adapted to better suit a students needs and utilizes what resources that can help in learning more or better manage specific students. Regards of the students’ abilities the teacher never allows the child to sit out and do nothing, instead he creates opportunities for the child to feel included even if it is things such as keeping score on the score