Prior to having any classroom teaching experience I always felt that a good educator would have to constantly adjust to the needs of their students in order to be effective. My fall student teaching placement only reinforced this belief, I can almost say that I underestimated this belief. My placement site was Mott Hall II, a public middle school serving grades 6-8 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I learned to like the location of my placement site really quickly, I had a great appreciation for the area 's diversity which was reflected in the student body of my placement school. As a teacher this diversity definitely impacted the way I interacted with my students. One of the biggest things I noticed is with a diverse student body comes students with
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I taught 4 different sections of 8th grade U.S. history and each class was considerably different from the next. The skills and needs not only varied from section to section, but within the sections too. As a teacher I constantly found myself adjusting to meet the needs of my students, in hopes of being a strong educator.
Placement School
Mott Hall II is located on 109th street on the upper west side in between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues. The school consists of 345 students covering grades 6 through 8. I student taught the 8th grade, which consisted of 115 students. One of the most common observations about the student body at Mott Hall II is its diversity, the same applies to its neighborhood. This is something that I was surprised to see when I started working at my site. The Nikole Hannah-Jones article, where she touched on the large divide among racial and socioeconomic classes made New York City school incredibly segregated was what I was expecting to see (Hannah-Jones, 2016). Her description of segregation was not completely unseen in the district where my
I taught 4 different sections of 8th grade U.S. history and each class was considerably different from the next. The skills and needs not only varied from section to section, but within the sections too. As a teacher I constantly found myself adjusting to meet the needs of my students, in hopes of being a strong educator.
Placement School
Mott Hall II is located on 109th street on the upper west side in between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues. The school consists of 345 students covering grades 6 through 8. I student taught the 8th grade, which consisted of 115 students. One of the most common observations about the student body at Mott Hall II is its diversity, the same applies to its neighborhood. This is something that I was surprised to see when I started working at my site. The Nikole Hannah-Jones article, where she touched on the large divide among racial and socioeconomic classes made New York City school incredibly segregated was what I was expecting to see (Hannah-Jones, 2016). Her description of segregation was not completely unseen in the district where my