Pre-kindergarten

What Went Well The content of the lessons went well, for lack of a better phrase. I knew my stuff, and the activities were planned well. (It helped that my mentor teacher had already taught the lessons a number of times and was able to give me good material to work with for the lessons.) I overplanned for both lessons, which was great. I hate the feeling of being left with time and nothing for the kids to do or learn still, so my overplanning helped me evade that. Because the activities were…

literature focus more on certain rhetorical strategies than others, both passages are effective in influencing the audience to break down racial barriers. On a daily basis, black men are charged with crimes they did not even commit because individuals have pre-conceived notions that African American men are angry criminals. A perfect example of this instance would be in the essay “Black Men in Public Space”. In this story, Brent Staples is taking his daily walk in his neighborhood and as he is…

The average student goes to school from kindergarten through twelfth grade. That is, at least, approximately thirteen years of our lives devoted to primary and secondary schooling to prepare us for college and the world beyond. Therefore, students should get the most out of those thirteen years. Every student should be able to receive a quality education, an education that is meaningful and worthwhile. In order to reach and attain quality educations, it is necessary to have adequate funding…

fun learning about rocks can be. The best part of the investigation was the hands-on learning experience about how rocks form their shape. In this investigation if I could do one thing differently it would be to have the stations pre-set up and already the students pre-assigned to groups form a smooth transition from station to station. The second investigation that I did with students was to have the student’s identity types of rock belongs to what category based on the rock’s properties…

The achievement gap refers to observed and consistent distinction of educational measures between the performance of groups in schools, involving groups of students defined by social class, gender, and race. The achievement gap in Ohio is becoming a major concern. Stephen Dyer said, “In reading, we had the nation’s ninth highest gap between our highest and lowest performing schools. In math, we had the nation’s second-highest gap, and in graduation rates we had the nation’s fourth largest gap”…

western Flatbush. The Caton School P.S 249 is a school in Brooklyn, New York, its population according to New York City Department of Education. With a gross enrollment of 894 students in the school year of 2015 to 2016, P.S 249, serves grades pre-kindergarten to fifth grade including special education classes. The student demographics consist of 6% Asian, 40% black, 49% Hispanic, and 4% percent white students. Thus, we may conclude that the majority of the population is of a minority…

Unjust Numbers Imagine being labeled by a number. Imagine being born with a score that would label your intelligence according to others. A stamp that would define your future. That’s an unfortunate reality when it comes to standardized test. There is a great deal of individuals who believe mandated testing is the only efficient way to assess a student’s intelligence. When the truth of the matter is, one’s intellect cannot be determined solely upon a testing score. In fact, one could conclude…

people eat fast food for every single meal. In response to the discussion of the food being served in our nation 's schools, identify similarities and differences you can recall from your own experiences from kindergarten through 12th grade. I attended the same small christian school from pre-school till 12th grade so my experience isn 't exactly diverse as far as the lunch room goes. Growing up me and my brothers and sister always had to pack a lunch so we rarely ate from the cafeteria, but…

In this Action Research paper, I am going to discuss the demographics and break down of my classroom library, and the possible deficits it presents to the students who populate it. This is significant because the more a child is exposed to a rich and dynamic library of books the better he or she has to be fluent in both reading and writing (Tompkins, 2015). It is also essential to to remember that a lack of culturally variegated texts may have an negative impact on children. I will first…

the former St. Patrick’s School in Olyphant. That school year, it was used as an elementary school for students who would have attended classes at the building in Olyphant that was condemned. This building was only big enough to accommodate the kindergarten through fourth grade students from Olyphant. Students from Olyphant in fifth and sixth grades continued to attend classes at the former junior high school. The former Mid-Valley Junior High School had many empty classrooms that school…