Elementary and primary schools

about this school? There were quite a number of the things that I thought were unique and surprising about the Ānuenue. For starters, when I arrived, I was surprised to see how small the school was, considering it was K-12. Upon speaking with the vice-principal, I found out this was because of the low number of students. However, I also do not think the small number of students is a negative thing. Everyone is like family and so few fights break out compared to many other public schools as a…

“home” and being forced to attend school without knowing the language. My family immigrated from Kosovo to the United States in January of 2004. I was only 5 years old at the time, so learning another language was fairly easy. My parents eagerly wanted to enroll me in school, and after only a few weeks of settling in my parents along with my uncle scheduled a meeting with the local elementary school. I was accepted and attended kindergarten at two elementary schools, which was tiring but…

money. The school in which I attended, Revere Local Schools, was primarily white. There was only a small handful of African American students at my school throughout the entirety of my grade school years. The larger minority group of students was Asian American or students of Middle Eastern descent. Growing up, I often wondered where these students were from and assumed that they were not from America because they looked different from myself. Throughout my first few years of elementary school,…

Big Horn Elementary Throughout the semester, I spent my time observing the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grades, at Big Horn Elementary, in Big Horn, Wyoming. Big Horn, a small town with a population of 490 residents, is located at the base of the Big Horn Mountains. The socioeconomic status leans towards middle to upper working class and the common ethnicity was Caucasian. However, there were other ethnicities such as, Latino, Asian, and African American students in the elementary school. It seemed that…

environment a school creates “shapes how teachers and students will feel, think, and behave, and its qualities can have a lasting effect on our lives.” For these reasons, the environment in which a school creates plays a very important role in many peoples lives: the students, their families, the teachers, and the community. It can either work for or against those involved, which is why it is always one of the main concerns for schools. A predominately white (97.6%) elementary school located…

For EDA 6503 The Principalship, the final course of the Educational Leadership program, I worked closely with Patricia Carson, principal at Mandarin Oaks Elementary School in Jacksonville, FL, to complete my practicum experiences. Ms. Carson has been a school principal for 22 years and the principal of Mandarin Oaks for the last 14 years. According to Ms. Carson, the job of a principal has changed immensely in the last 10 years, and it is more important than ever to keep up with current…

changing from nursery to primary education, puberty, or changes in their home life such as moving house, entering or leaving care, changes to their family structure. How each child is affected is very individual to each person, the stage of development they have already reached and a whole mix of external and environmental factors. If the teaching staff are…

In 2007 the Pinellas County School Board stopped integrating schools, causing a shift in school demographics that was especially drastic for 5 elementary schools in south Pinellas: Campbell Park, Fairmount Park, Lakewood, Maximo and Melrose. These schools became noticeably segregated and performance dropped, they were dubbed “failure factories” in a Tampa Bay Times series about the schools. South Pinellas is also known for its lack of fresh food resources and could be considered a food desert.…

loved going to school as a kid. To be honest, I don’t take offense to it, only because I love the elementary school I went too still today. I love it so much that I spent the second half of my senior year of high school volunteering there as a first grade teacher’s aid. My elementary school was relatively small compared to others in the area. It was kindergarten through sixth grade. Every grade in the school had between 60-80 students roughly. The nice thing about my elementary school was that…

encountered after attending Carl Junction schools, and the impact and difference it made on my life. People think all schools are the same, that it is school, there’s kids and there’s teachers, you go and sit for 8 hours and you get marked as ‘present’ regardless if you’re learning or not, and if you’re present and you don’t fail, then you go on to the next grade. But I realized something different, when things got switched up for me. I attended Carl Junction schools from 1st grade to the very…