Every Monday and Wednesday, my afternoons are spent on the 900 block of West Union Blvd in West Bethlehem, PA. However, to be more specific the location of my field experience is Nitschmann Middle School. The school is located in the westside of the city of Bethlehem which tends to be a little more suburban in comparison to the rest of the Bethlehem Area School District. Certainly, after school there are some students that do not travel far to get to school, some houses are seconds away from the school.
Before arriving at Nitschmann Middle School I already had some preconceived notions about the school. Being a former student of the Bethlehem Area School District may also misconstrue an accurate impression. Furthermore, due to the location …show more content…
Some classrooms have air conditioners that you placed into the window and some have some prehistoric ceiling fans. The walls inside the classroom were not any better than the walls in the hallways, still lacking any vitality. Some classrooms have the traditional blackboards and some have odd green-boards which are not appeasing to view covered in bright yellow chalk. Some chairs have those tennis balls at the base of them to avoid making that terrible scratching noise that everyone hates. In some classroom students have a regular desk. In Mrs. Wallach’s classroom, the desks are regular and Mrs. Hriniak’s classroom has desks that are more table like as if they once had belonged inside of a science lab. Of course the desks are oriented facing the board with the teacher’s desk off to the side or in the …show more content…
I had to answer open ended questions that correlated with what was occurring in the classroom. At the end of it all the assignment was over thirty pages long, but that was only for one course. I also had to completed such field experience for a Special Education course as well. The assignment was daunting, redundant, and very lengthy. There was minimal or no time at all to interact with students the way I am able to interact with them now. I had an even smaller role in the student’s learning process than I do now. In my current field experience, observing in the back of the classroom is not the only task, but I also interact with the children and contribute a little to their learning. While students were in their mathematics class, I was able to use prior knowledge learned from previous courses to help students with exponents and radicals. In their Literature class, I used prior knowledge help the students in their understanding of the text about Slavery but also the historical context that the literature provided for the students. Existence as an extra support in the classroom really helps stimulate the learning process because there are more individuals to support
Before arriving at Nitschmann Middle School I already had some preconceived notions about the school. Being a former student of the Bethlehem Area School District may also misconstrue an accurate impression. Furthermore, due to the location …show more content…
Some classrooms have air conditioners that you placed into the window and some have some prehistoric ceiling fans. The walls inside the classroom were not any better than the walls in the hallways, still lacking any vitality. Some classrooms have the traditional blackboards and some have odd green-boards which are not appeasing to view covered in bright yellow chalk. Some chairs have those tennis balls at the base of them to avoid making that terrible scratching noise that everyone hates. In some classroom students have a regular desk. In Mrs. Wallach’s classroom, the desks are regular and Mrs. Hriniak’s classroom has desks that are more table like as if they once had belonged inside of a science lab. Of course the desks are oriented facing the board with the teacher’s desk off to the side or in the …show more content…
I had to answer open ended questions that correlated with what was occurring in the classroom. At the end of it all the assignment was over thirty pages long, but that was only for one course. I also had to completed such field experience for a Special Education course as well. The assignment was daunting, redundant, and very lengthy. There was minimal or no time at all to interact with students the way I am able to interact with them now. I had an even smaller role in the student’s learning process than I do now. In my current field experience, observing in the back of the classroom is not the only task, but I also interact with the children and contribute a little to their learning. While students were in their mathematics class, I was able to use prior knowledge learned from previous courses to help students with exponents and radicals. In their Literature class, I used prior knowledge help the students in their understanding of the text about Slavery but also the historical context that the literature provided for the students. Existence as an extra support in the classroom really helps stimulate the learning process because there are more individuals to support