The Power to Win must come from Within
Before I entered the school I looked it up on a webpage Zillow.com. I know that my mom and my sister would use it a lot. Especially when they were looking into moving houses or buying a home. Tulip Grove Elementary school had a rating of 8 out of 10. For me that tells me that the school is considered as a school that is above average. The school has 307 students from K-5th grade. In addition, the student-teacher ratio was 15:1(awesome). I also saw that the school was identified as primarily multi-racial. The extracurricular activities on this page mentioned band, chorus, drawing and painting
• Curriculum (type, level of challenge)
First grade: I was in a classroom for 3.5 hours. I was placed in first grade …show more content…
She mentioned that in the beginning of the year she made sure that the students followed instructions and worked independently. She used the technique of speaking very softly and nicely to the students. She established excellent rapport with her students. That has allowed her to work with her students as a facilitator instead of having to do much discipline to get their attention. I was able to notice that the 4th and 5th grade teachers were very disciplinary. Some teachers actually seemed negative. Maybe they were fed up with the students or they had a long day. This teacher was very direct, loud, and she was frustrated often. She made the class environment difficult. Another 4th grade teacher was passive aggressive. The first grade teacher and one 4th grade teacher served their students as a facilitator. The other teachers were very …show more content…
We asked for the vice principal and the secretary tried contacting her. The main office seemed out of control. Teachers, parents and students were coming in and out of the office. After a few minutes the secretary told us that the vice principal and the teachers were not expecting us. They first called us interns, then practicum students. Leah and I mentioned that we were Bowie state graduate students from the school psychology program. They blamed the confusion on Bowie and it made me feel uncomfortable. The secretary (an old lady) was whispering to another old lady about Leah and I. It was weird because we could obviously hear them talking bad about the “interns, practicum or whatever they called us). We were asked if we could observe a different day but we said that it would be better to observe that day. The secretary was calling teachers and asking if Leah and I could observe and the first few teachers said “no.” they mentioned that they were not ready for an observation. It was confusing because the secretary told the teachers that we were intern, then practicum students and finally just observers.
While we were waiting I was able to observe that there was one teacher close to the main door entrance. She was greeting everyone that walked through the doors with a “good morning” and a smile. The school building was very clean, the classrooms looked neat, the level of noise was
Before I entered the school I looked it up on a webpage Zillow.com. I know that my mom and my sister would use it a lot. Especially when they were looking into moving houses or buying a home. Tulip Grove Elementary school had a rating of 8 out of 10. For me that tells me that the school is considered as a school that is above average. The school has 307 students from K-5th grade. In addition, the student-teacher ratio was 15:1(awesome). I also saw that the school was identified as primarily multi-racial. The extracurricular activities on this page mentioned band, chorus, drawing and painting
• Curriculum (type, level of challenge)
First grade: I was in a classroom for 3.5 hours. I was placed in first grade …show more content…
She mentioned that in the beginning of the year she made sure that the students followed instructions and worked independently. She used the technique of speaking very softly and nicely to the students. She established excellent rapport with her students. That has allowed her to work with her students as a facilitator instead of having to do much discipline to get their attention. I was able to notice that the 4th and 5th grade teachers were very disciplinary. Some teachers actually seemed negative. Maybe they were fed up with the students or they had a long day. This teacher was very direct, loud, and she was frustrated often. She made the class environment difficult. Another 4th grade teacher was passive aggressive. The first grade teacher and one 4th grade teacher served their students as a facilitator. The other teachers were very …show more content…
We asked for the vice principal and the secretary tried contacting her. The main office seemed out of control. Teachers, parents and students were coming in and out of the office. After a few minutes the secretary told us that the vice principal and the teachers were not expecting us. They first called us interns, then practicum students. Leah and I mentioned that we were Bowie state graduate students from the school psychology program. They blamed the confusion on Bowie and it made me feel uncomfortable. The secretary (an old lady) was whispering to another old lady about Leah and I. It was weird because we could obviously hear them talking bad about the “interns, practicum or whatever they called us). We were asked if we could observe a different day but we said that it would be better to observe that day. The secretary was calling teachers and asking if Leah and I could observe and the first few teachers said “no.” they mentioned that they were not ready for an observation. It was confusing because the secretary told the teachers that we were intern, then practicum students and finally just observers.
While we were waiting I was able to observe that there was one teacher close to the main door entrance. She was greeting everyone that walked through the doors with a “good morning” and a smile. The school building was very clean, the classrooms looked neat, the level of noise was