Personal Narrative: My Visit To Star Point School

My visit in the 2nd Grade reading class at the Star Point School was a very interesting one. One thing that made an impression on me was the use of a clicker. A clicker was used to keep them in rhythm. Every time the children would say a word or repeat anything back to the teacher, you would hear a sharp click sound. I personally did not like the clicker at all. It seemed similar to training an animal. I think the children could have gotten the rhythm without the clicker. I feel as if the click actually hurt the children's learning environment more than helped it. Due to the fact that the kids were so dependent on when to speak and how to speak, the learning aspect gets left behind. The aspect of self-thinking becomes forgotten and is based off of memorization. I observed children saying the words and looking in different directions due to the fact that they had memorized everything already. Speaking in rhythm with the clicks instead of the steady rhythm of speech is something the children were not really familiar with. The words were rarely used in sentences and the speech didn't seem very realistic.
Another thing I noticed was the feel of the classroom, it was very military-like. There was always a timer being set. The children's lack of laughter, and overall …show more content…
Children were taught what they needed to know with the emphasis of leaning on a teacher for direction. I considered it a stricter view of essentialism because the teaching style did leave out the students going into deeper thought. The second thing that I related to class, was the thought that a teacher needs to know how to teach a wide variety of backgrounds. This class was all kids with a special need and a teacher needs to be able to know how to handle her students in a way that is productive to them and her. Otherwise there will be no learning in the