About five minutes from my house, in between Holmes Road and Wornall Road, on 107th street, sits Red Bridge Elementary. A brick school that was not very big, but had a massive playground behind it spanning what seemed to be the size of 3 football fields, Red Bridge taught grade kindergarten through fifth grade. Walking in the front entrance, the office of the principal is straight on your right and there is a hallway going left and right and off of that hallway are two hallways that go straight. Down the right hallway is the younger kids such as the kindergarten and first grade classrooms and down the left hallway are the fourth and fifth grade classrooms. Each day kids pile off the bus into the school to see what the day has in store for them.
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Staltler and Mrs. Strahm, I helped with all kinds of different projects from redecorating to technology. One of the first things I notice about Red Bridge Elementary was they had many teachers in place whose sole purpose was to take struggling kids and help them one-on-one to keep them caught up with the entire class. I thought this was an interesting program the school had implemented and the more I thought about it the smarter it seems to me. Ms. Staltler and Mrs. Strahm were both great teachers that tried very hard to help each and every kid but with two classes compiled with 25 kids each, it was very difficult for the teachers to make sure every kid was caught up with everything. Multiple times a day, a teacher at Red Bridge would come and pick out a student and take that student to a separate room and teach them whatever math or english lesson they were learning at the time. I even pulled many kids out of class to help them with math flash cards or helped them with english. One-on-one teaching has many benefits over the larger classroom setting. In fact one-on-one teaching can (Clandfield).” In my experience, when I was in second grade, the larger class made it more difficult to learn because it made me feel that the teacher was not giving me as much attention as I should get. As I moved from second grade to third grade, my school lost about eight students and the size of the class was only 11 students. Even the eight …show more content…
One kid they took out for math and writing was Tracy. Tracy was a kid that was very hyper all the time. He always loved to show off for other kids and the class with his constant antics. About every other day, Tracy would go to a classroom by himself with a single teacher and she would help him with whatever project the kids were working on. For the entire duration I was there, the kids were working on a writing project where they would describe a process of how to do something. I remember Tracy was doing football because he would constantly ask me for help and try and trick me to do his project for him, but it never worked. Tracy struggled with spelling and grammar so about every other day he went to a separate teacher and took his story to her to work on it. These teachers that dedicate their time and efforts to helping the students one-on-one really makes a difference in the children’s learning.
The one-on-one teaching would be nothing without the passionate teachers that Red Bridge Elementary has. The two teachers I helped out in my two and a half weeks there was Mrs. Strahm and Ms. Staltler both who had been teacher for ten plus years. Also, both had taught every single grade at Red Bridge and most of the time they taught third grade. The funniest thing that happened the whole time I was there was two separate conversations I had with each teacher but they both said the same thing. I asked Mrs. Strahm one day
Staltler and Mrs. Strahm, I helped with all kinds of different projects from redecorating to technology. One of the first things I notice about Red Bridge Elementary was they had many teachers in place whose sole purpose was to take struggling kids and help them one-on-one to keep them caught up with the entire class. I thought this was an interesting program the school had implemented and the more I thought about it the smarter it seems to me. Ms. Staltler and Mrs. Strahm were both great teachers that tried very hard to help each and every kid but with two classes compiled with 25 kids each, it was very difficult for the teachers to make sure every kid was caught up with everything. Multiple times a day, a teacher at Red Bridge would come and pick out a student and take that student to a separate room and teach them whatever math or english lesson they were learning at the time. I even pulled many kids out of class to help them with math flash cards or helped them with english. One-on-one teaching has many benefits over the larger classroom setting. In fact one-on-one teaching can (Clandfield).” In my experience, when I was in second grade, the larger class made it more difficult to learn because it made me feel that the teacher was not giving me as much attention as I should get. As I moved from second grade to third grade, my school lost about eight students and the size of the class was only 11 students. Even the eight …show more content…
One kid they took out for math and writing was Tracy. Tracy was a kid that was very hyper all the time. He always loved to show off for other kids and the class with his constant antics. About every other day, Tracy would go to a classroom by himself with a single teacher and she would help him with whatever project the kids were working on. For the entire duration I was there, the kids were working on a writing project where they would describe a process of how to do something. I remember Tracy was doing football because he would constantly ask me for help and try and trick me to do his project for him, but it never worked. Tracy struggled with spelling and grammar so about every other day he went to a separate teacher and took his story to her to work on it. These teachers that dedicate their time and efforts to helping the students one-on-one really makes a difference in the children’s learning.
The one-on-one teaching would be nothing without the passionate teachers that Red Bridge Elementary has. The two teachers I helped out in my two and a half weeks there was Mrs. Strahm and Ms. Staltler both who had been teacher for ten plus years. Also, both had taught every single grade at Red Bridge and most of the time they taught third grade. The funniest thing that happened the whole time I was there was two separate conversations I had with each teacher but they both said the same thing. I asked Mrs. Strahm one day