First Day of Class Essay

Picture a day-in-the-life of two 18-year-old, high school students in Connecticut on April 15, 2015. We find one White student in his father’s car on the way to his hyper-segregated White high school in a wealthy suburban community. Father and son are listening to a report on National Public Radio covering riots in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray. We find the second Black student sitting on a bus heading to a hyper-segregated Minority high school in an urban center. The student sits in…

October 6, 2016 was my fourth day visiting Miami Elementary School. Over the past couple of visits I have learned many new things as I observe the class and their activities. I have learned that by using music and colors when teaching, kindergarteners tend to learn better. I have learned that by rewarding your students when they do something good, makes the students want to strive to do the right thing more often. I have also learned that kindergarteners have a very short attention span, meaning…

NR Law Class Opinion I would have to say that I was quite skeptical when first signing up for this class last fall. I was under the assumption that we would be covering game and fish law throughout the course, but that was not case. Instead we got the valuable opportunity to meet many of the conservation officers who work locally. I know credit limits are getting pushed further and further at these two year technical colleges, but I feel there should be a class solely for the learning of the…

Technology in physical education has been around ever since shortly after the first physical education class took place in the fall of 1820; where they started to focus on gymnastics and the hygiene of the human body. Technology has been a part of classrooms for as long as people can remember, whether it be the first calculator in math class or the first light bulb that would soon light up a literature classroom full of students. Physical education department leaders and teachers have taken…

at Volusia Pines Elementary School in Lake Helen Florida. I was able to work with my nephew’s first grade teacher, Mrs. Erica Stevens. Altogether I spent 16 hours with Mrs. Stevens and her students. Mrs. Stevens has worked at Volusia Pines Elementary School for eight years. Her class is a general education class with seventeen students, of the seventeen students nine are girls and eight are boys. This class is very racially diverse four of the students are African American, five are Hispanic,…

version of the mandatory semesters of Government and Economics. Even though I have never taken an A.P. beforehand my logic was “hey I’ve done well in every history class I’ve taken before this point, why not take A.P.? It’ll be easy”. Let me also just throw in there that this class was a graduation requirement, meaning if I failed the class I couldn 't graduate. My teacher (lets call him Mr. Govern-mics, since I had him both semesters) was new to the school. It also became very obvious in the…

This class was nothing like I’ve ever been apart of. The dynamics of the class, how it was structured, and the requirements, were all so foreign to me that it really allowed me to grow as a student, and a business major. I learned a lot about not only myself, but also how I react in certain situations. I also learned about my peers in a way I would otherwise not have. Beginning with the class dynamics, I learned how different personalities are. Being an introvert in this class was very…

direction in class weather it be a little or a lot just any kind of direction when it come to the classroom. This story take place in college with frmn going to he first ever college class a little nervous and shy being that they don't know one another. The professor walks in at nine o'clock say good morning to the class and tell the to observe the fish on the plate and to take notes of what the see, then the professor left and did not return. The professor this this everyday for three days.…

These days educators need to be more exciting, caring, and interesting for their students. Throughout my years of going to school I’ve had the amazing opportunity to be taught by teachers…

different places throughout the day. This is the first time that I have written down and paid attention to how my energy level changed during the course of the day. I occasionally would think about how much energy I had or how drained I felt at different times in my life, but I never took the time to write it down and observe, so this was a new experience for me. I started my geography of energy journal on Sunday October 4th and ended on Sunday October 11th. The first day of journaling I had…