Elementary school

This week for field experience we returned to Waterville Community Elementary School. It was my third week observing Mrs. Bacon, one of the kindergarten teachers, and I learned something new every time. I enjoyed these three visits and they helped show me what teachings is like in real life. I feel like I did basically the same thing every week so it’s getting difficult to write something new. Since we go at the same time each week they are always doing the same activities. It is a very…

The endless rows of gray tables and little blue stools are lined up in the cafeteria like the blue lines on a piece of notebook paper. During my limited years of public elementary school, my first-grade brain would curiously observe my peers as they got their lunch, who would follow each other into the lunch line like sugar ants lining up to snatch up the food that they wanted. When they returned from their voyage, I would observe their meals and maybe compare theirs to mine. I would watch them…

For my second observation, I observed behavior at Pinecreek Elementary School in the Brookville School District which contains grades one through two. I observed in the speech therapy room which is a separate room where kids get pulled out of class to receive therapy. I watched two sets of students, one was an individual therapy session and the other was a group of two students. Since the school is so small it is only necessary for there to be one speech pathologist, Mrs. Martz. As I watched…

Meyers Park Traditional Elementary School is a CMS Magnet school serving kindergarten through 5th grade with students admitted by lottery. The school is located in the Meyers Park neighborhood, adjacent to Queens University and has been in existence since 1928. According to the North Carolina Report Card for the 2014-2015 school year, the school exceeded growth during this academic period and has a performance letter grade of A. Current data from CMS show enrollment at 726 students, with 315…

It wasn 't until I became a mother that I decided I wanted to become an Elementary School Teacher. For so long I had a difficult time deciding what career I wanted to go into, which caused me to constantly change my major. After I had my daughter is when I realized I wanted to get into a career that involved working with children. Teachers don 't go to just a job, they go to a place that makes them happy everyday knowing that they are helping children learn and grow. There are several reasons to…

The Impact of Physical Education in Elementary Schools While Physical Education is required in most states and stricter guidelines and recommendations are being pushed to schools, what is actually occurring in those classes and the impact they are having on students is very concerning. Physical Education is defined very differently among schools and the daily priority it is given is declining. Implementing physical education in elementary schools that is actually beneficial is very important to…

different program models as we visited three different elementary schools. Two of the schools are in Urbana: King Elementary School and Leal Elementary School. The other school, Johns Hill Elementary School, is in Decatur. The program models we observed were ESL Pullout and Push-in, Dual-Language, and Transitional Bilingual Education. Through the visits I learned a lot about the different program models and what they are like within a school. I learned about the benefits and also the challenges…

Elementary School Teacher The career I chose to do is an Elementary school teacher. As an elementary school teacher you help kids develope proper behavior, how to study, and to communicate with other people, and or students. Also they teach their students such subjects as; Math, Reading, and Social Studies. Teachers need to have great communication skills with children also, because of the fact that they spend about eight hours a day with their young students. The work performed by an…

Kings Trail Elementary Professional Development School demographics are that approximately 38.3% of students identify as African-American, which creates the largest segment of the student body and is expected in many schools in Jacksonville where 41.7% of student population is African American (Kings Trail Elementary School). In addition, 27.9% of students identify as Hispanic, while, 20.7% identify as White and 9.2% identify as Asian (Kings Trail Elementary School). Lastly, 3.5% identify with…

Lacy Elementary School is in the process of implementing Positive Behavior Support Systems, but has seen a large influx of bullying in the cafeteria during lunch hours. Bullying involves any type of psychological or physical abuse and includes such behaviors as teasing or taunting (Whitted & Duper, 2005). Bullying can also be defined as the use of hostile actions that is meant to be disparaging to the individual (Long & Alexander, 2010). While studying the definitions of bullying and reading…