Field Experience Sites
This semester I was in Educ 2120 and Educ 2130. I had to complete 40 volunteer hours by the end of the semester. I started out at Oasis. Oasis is an afterschool tutoring center for children 3 years old to 3rd grade. Oasis’ purpose is "To build bridges of understanding, appreciation, and love among cultures, faith traditions, social statuses, and with God, fostering wholeness and holiness, thus bringing healing to people 's hearts and peace to their relationships." During my time at Oasis, I was attending the tutoring on Mondays from 2:30-5:00. I worked with the Pre-k age children and almost always had a group of 5-6 boys. I would occasionally have 1 girl in the group. The first thing I really noticed after working with …show more content…
The biggest thing I really noticed is the children’s behavior. I felt that the younger the child, the less likely they are to listen the first time they are told something. At Oasis, I had Pre-k and could hear myself repeating things multiple times and asking the children to “please sit down” or “please pay attention” or my favorite, “can anyone tell me what I just said?” most of the time no one could tell me what I had just said. In the 1st grade class, the children struggled to ever quiet down. They were all constantly very chatty. Even with the teacher talking you could still hear at least one of their little voices either whispering to their neighbor or shouting something to the whole classroom. The teacher had to constantly do her clapping system, where she claps something and all the children clap back, meaning they are supposed to now zip their lips and listen up. In the 3rd grade class, some children were of course still chatty. However when the teacher threated to move a child’s clip to a different color or simply raised her voice a little saying it’s too loud the children all listened for the most part. So just in those simple cases, you can really tell how age makes a difference of the ability to listen and
This semester I was in Educ 2120 and Educ 2130. I had to complete 40 volunteer hours by the end of the semester. I started out at Oasis. Oasis is an afterschool tutoring center for children 3 years old to 3rd grade. Oasis’ purpose is "To build bridges of understanding, appreciation, and love among cultures, faith traditions, social statuses, and with God, fostering wholeness and holiness, thus bringing healing to people 's hearts and peace to their relationships." During my time at Oasis, I was attending the tutoring on Mondays from 2:30-5:00. I worked with the Pre-k age children and almost always had a group of 5-6 boys. I would occasionally have 1 girl in the group. The first thing I really noticed after working with …show more content…
The biggest thing I really noticed is the children’s behavior. I felt that the younger the child, the less likely they are to listen the first time they are told something. At Oasis, I had Pre-k and could hear myself repeating things multiple times and asking the children to “please sit down” or “please pay attention” or my favorite, “can anyone tell me what I just said?” most of the time no one could tell me what I had just said. In the 1st grade class, the children struggled to ever quiet down. They were all constantly very chatty. Even with the teacher talking you could still hear at least one of their little voices either whispering to their neighbor or shouting something to the whole classroom. The teacher had to constantly do her clapping system, where she claps something and all the children clap back, meaning they are supposed to now zip their lips and listen up. In the 3rd grade class, some children were of course still chatty. However when the teacher threated to move a child’s clip to a different color or simply raised her voice a little saying it’s too loud the children all listened for the most part. So just in those simple cases, you can really tell how age makes a difference of the ability to listen and