Personal Narrative: Walking Into Kekionga Middle School

Walking into Kekionga Middle School I noticed a lot of differences from schools that I had visited previously. The most visible one being the school’s population and location. I had never observed at an urban school and have never felt such a cultural difference between me and the students. With a school population that was so diverse and not within the same background as I was, I immediately started thinking about my future teaching career and what I would do in that kind of atmosphere. I later on asked Mrs. Parker why she chose this school and said that it was because she went to Fort Wayne Community Schools all of her life, so she did not feel change at all. That might be something that I will consider as I look for places to work at. Though it will most likely be the inevitable that the first school that I teach in will be at a place that has a severally different background to mine, I need to understand that wherever I teach I need to be culturally adapt or, at the very least, understand the background that my students are coming from. …show more content…
Parker and the lessons she provided were familiar to other schools that I have been to. Her lesson for today was focused around a SCOPE magazine play that was about sailors and submarines. To prepare them for this she went through what looked a lot like a “BuzzFeed” article (but for students) that talked about different types of fishes and then played two YouTube videos: one about a woman diving down into the depths using a submarine, and another that covers various facts about octopuses. Afterwards the students were allowed to either read the play in groups or on their own. All of her classes (both 7th and 8th grade) did this in order to help them prepare for