Junior school

first day of high school I was nervous. I wanted to just get the day over with. I tried going to bed but just couldn't sleep. After I finally got through the long night, it was time for my first day. I thought most of the upperclassmen were going to make fun of me. By thinking and worrying what others would think of me I was showing insecurity. Insecurity isn't the best character trait to have, but on the other hand, it can help get you mentally stronger. The characters Junior and the narrator…

I am a junior and I am majoring in Physical and Health Education and I did my cultural diversity practicum at a Hutterite colony called Wheatland Colony School near Tower City, North Dakota. Going into my practicum I really did not know what to expect other than it was not going to be the same as a normal classroom setting. I thought that I would be in the gym with the gym teacher for at least some of the practicum but soon found out that I would not be in the gym at all. When I first arrived,…

was free to pursue more art and concentrate on finding strengths in art. During elementary school i experimented with fiber arts and fashion as an art form. I begun to grow an interest in a fashion related career and an academic career at FiDM in Los Angeles, as years went on i began to question a career as a fashion designer which later brought me to research fashion education and production. In junior high i found the production of a fashion shoot far more interesting than the product and…

Before a student becomes an adult, their main goal in life is to do well in school. In school, teachers and other higher officials have a level of expectations for them to uphold. These expectations can be a variety of things that can determine a person's success. Generally speaking, people work only as well as other people expect them to work. For example, when a teacher assigns an essay that must contain a minimum of three body paragraphs. Because of this, there is not much room for…

great teacher.” I need to take his advice. • Get more large-group teaching experience in a school setting with middle schoolers. I love working with middle schoolers – they are so much fun and have so much to offer! That being said, for both of my 8th grade placements this year, my mentors have noted that I need to build confidence when working with kids that age. I hope to do a fair amount of subbing at the junior high when I am home to get some of that experience in front of middle schoolers.…

of us there is no equal opportunity. If you go to the inner city of Detroit and look at the public schools or the schools in a reservation the facilities are poorly taken care off. Teachers don't have any proper materials to support kids and the school is a run down and disgusting facility. This cause kids to not want to learn at all, but if you look at the schools in these places they are schools with most kids in the minority. This shows the culture that we live in. society has left our…

During my junior year of high school I struggled to meet my academic standards. My junior year turned out to be one of the most challenging times in my life, as I had to encounter a tough class work load, my father had been hospitalized and I myself suffered injuries that required trips to the hospital. All these events accumulated and caused my life to take a dramatic spin. While trying to maintain my academic excellence midway through my first semester of my junior year my father suffered a…

Is junior high starting out awful? Well, junior is awful unless you know what you're doing so I wrote up these tips on how to survive. Junior high is really important because this is when you start growing up and when a lot more responsibility is placed onto you. Remember that life will go on and it really doesn’t matter how popular you are because it’s only three years and then it’s all over. No one will probably remember it anyway who was and wasn’t popular. Junior high is also fun because a…

important that children take what they have learnt in the classroom along with them in their day to day living. This chapter will outline the importance of the child being active in their educational setting to develop the child holistically in primary schools. Many theorists such as Maria Montessori and Vygotsky’s state that they child should be active learners and be at the center of their learning from an early age. This suggest the child…

Junior finds himself perplex about his true identity. Throughout the novel he travels back at forth from his reservation with only Native Americans to going to a school out of the reservation Reardan that had mainly white students. On the reservation, Junior is the outcast that doesn’t seem to quite belong. In Reardan, he is Arnold, the traitor of his tribe. He doesn’t know which side to identify with. Even though he feels more welcome in Reardan, that’s not where his home is so how can he…