My Field Experience: Connections to Educational Psychology
My first day at Wood’s Mill was October, 13 I didn’t know what to expect. I was a bit nervous because I had not done my homework on the facility and simply chose it because of the location. When I drove up and saw that it was in a mobile home, I prejudged. I met Ms. Notice the Lead Instructor who placed me in a class with people ranging in ages from 17 to well over 50 years of age. The instructor who I will call Mr. Snow was totally engaged with his class. During break we spoke and he actually teaches fourth grade during the day at one of the elementary schools in Hall County, and works Tuesday and Thursday nights at Wood’s Mill. He spoke with me about entering the teaching profession, …show more content…
Bernice is a strong, and dedicated woman who is working full time, and attending Wood’s Mill two nights a week from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. I applaud her tenacity, and would never want anyone to think less of her because she may not know a numerator from a denominator. By the time she and her family arrived to America she was too old to be placed in fourth grade so she missed a lot of the fundamentals. She missed so much a part of me wants to blame the teachers, and the counselors for passing her on knowing full well she couldn’t do algebra, because she could barely multiply, but how do you cram 9 years of lost education into four years. Even if you do summers and nights and weekends it may not happen. As educators though how can we promote, unprepared students, who are obviously not ready to go on. Did Bernice not have an intentional teacher? According to Slavin “Teachers face a number of difficult, and sometimes unexpected, decisions every day” (p.11) so maybe this was the case, Bernice’s teachers did the best they could under the circumstances, but if her mom barely spoke good English did they get an interpreter, and did she still not understand, I don’t know but a large
My first day at Wood’s Mill was October, 13 I didn’t know what to expect. I was a bit nervous because I had not done my homework on the facility and simply chose it because of the location. When I drove up and saw that it was in a mobile home, I prejudged. I met Ms. Notice the Lead Instructor who placed me in a class with people ranging in ages from 17 to well over 50 years of age. The instructor who I will call Mr. Snow was totally engaged with his class. During break we spoke and he actually teaches fourth grade during the day at one of the elementary schools in Hall County, and works Tuesday and Thursday nights at Wood’s Mill. He spoke with me about entering the teaching profession, …show more content…
Bernice is a strong, and dedicated woman who is working full time, and attending Wood’s Mill two nights a week from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. I applaud her tenacity, and would never want anyone to think less of her because she may not know a numerator from a denominator. By the time she and her family arrived to America she was too old to be placed in fourth grade so she missed a lot of the fundamentals. She missed so much a part of me wants to blame the teachers, and the counselors for passing her on knowing full well she couldn’t do algebra, because she could barely multiply, but how do you cram 9 years of lost education into four years. Even if you do summers and nights and weekends it may not happen. As educators though how can we promote, unprepared students, who are obviously not ready to go on. Did Bernice not have an intentional teacher? According to Slavin “Teachers face a number of difficult, and sometimes unexpected, decisions every day” (p.11) so maybe this was the case, Bernice’s teachers did the best they could under the circumstances, but if her mom barely spoke good English did they get an interpreter, and did she still not understand, I don’t know but a large