Every day at school it is always the same. School is normal for everyone, but my same way for school is an unusual way of everyday. It all started back in elementary. A bully name Mitch was a person I would never forget. He always bullies everyone just for money and attention. Well that was the case for me. It was near christmas during a very cold winter. It was a very cold winter during 4th period in elementary. I was walking to my class from the nurses office to get a ice pack. When I was…
Introduction Succession is referred to as changes within an ecological community following a disturbance of a relatively large area (Connell and Slatyer 1977.) Succession is broken down into two main time periods: primary and secondary. Primary succession is classified as the formation of soil and colonization of annual plants over a depleted land. Secondary succession is classified as the colonization and development of perennial plants over an established ecosystem. The process at which…
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) U.S. students reading and math test scored have declined dramatically for the first time in 20 years. There are many factors to take in to consideration before blaming The Common Core Standards, frequent testing in schools, the economy, and demographic changes. To what extent can schools be held accountable to meeting the needs of their students? In many urban areas students are already starting at a disadvantage or come from…
Prior to these changes, the primary national curriculum for English did require children to develop their speaking and listening skills. In spite of that, scholars such as Alexander (2012) argued this was not adequate, and the government needed to integrate talk into the national curriculum across all subjects. The huge growth of interest around talk in the classroom caused the government to rethink the national curriculum aims across the whole curriculum. The English primary national curriculum…
Thinking back to my past, I realized how little exposure I had to diversity while growing up. I lived in a nice town known as Richfield, Ohio where many of the families had 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…
glimpse into the actual, private thoughts and actions of people in the past. They might contain thoughts that people hold privately, but hold nonetheless, and would not be seen were it not for their expectation of privacy. However, use of a diary as a primary source in this way is not without flaws. As mentioned before, it is lacking detail that Dorothy herself knew already, but that we never will. Diaries also obviously only contain the perspective of a single person, whose experience may not…
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…
KUBASAKI HIGH SCHOOL I. Roof Roof leakage is one of the major issues plaguing the high school, except for bldgs. 1406, 1433 and 1437, all other buildings experiences roof leakage during rainfall. Buildings 1402 and 1408 are more egregious than others. In addition, with 1408 housing the main office, IC and Server localities, and leakage is problematic as it can lead to excessive loss of learning materials, i.e. computers and servers. More so, leakage within the main offices presents a…
it took a long timeline of failures to figure out how to run a proper convention, the citizens finally took hold of a working convention. In fact, from 1905 to the present, we have only added to the presidential nominating process, now relying on primaries, caucuses, state conventions, and national nominating conventions (Northeastern…
According to the article “The Classroom Environment” the 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.…