Working With Mrs. Giannotti's Class

Khristy Hernandez 1AB Mrs.Carroll Place: Seabourn Elementary School, 1st graders Time: 4 hours and 14 minutes The point for this observation was to ask my mentor ‘ What has been the biggest challenge for her in relation to providing accommodations?’ And ‘ How she overcame that challenge?’ Her biggest challenge in relation to providing accommodations is the fact that you need to customize each kid's needs, like homeschooling, free lunch, and getting teachers to take out kids out of class for 15 minutes just to help them get better at reading or anything else.

Summer has come to an end, the school year has just started and Professor Steven Currents, a staff member at the Danville University for the last 27 years, is preparing to teach his first lesson. Life in the town of Danville is just as expected in an average size town, many people know each other and have regular jobs. Danville University is the only college in the 3 surrounding counties, which makes it rather large, holding around 16,000 students. Although the town is average size, the University is large. Professor Currents begins taking attendants when he realizes that 5 of his students enrolled in his class are missing.

It had been months of dance classes without feeling like part of the family. New studio, new teachers and new dancers which was all strange to me. Until my first competition with Dance with Mitzi. It was the pep talk with Mitzi before my solo that made me get the feeling of family. Mrs. Mitzi is the definition of perfection.

I was so close, just a few feet behind the irritatingly bright mop of red hair. My whole body was so pumped on adrenaline that I couldn’t even feel my legs. Only the consciousness that they were moving, fast. My arms reached out in front of me, itching to get ahold of the fluorescent green ball that I have set my sights on. Just as I was about to overtake Preston, I lost control of my footing and plop!

Her heart was beating louder and faster she thought for sure the buck would hear it. Her stomach was up to her throat. She had to go to the bathroom. She is a nervous wreck. She held her gun up and in position to shoot.

On October 26th at 4:30 pm, I began to observe my focused learner Alondra at Eastchester Community Action Partnership (ECAP). As I observed Alondra, I noticed right away that she is not shy. Alondra did not hesitate to speak to me, answer my questions or share any personal information about herself. I learned that Alondra is an energetic girl who loves to dance. Her favorite songs are “100 Years” and “Let It Go” from the Disney Frozen movie.

I learned some things that I wouldn’t have thought about before choosing the path to become an educator. While many believe school work stops at 3pm when the students leave, Mrs. Rutigliano assured me that it never stops. She is doing work before school, after school, and even on the weekends to prepare lesson plans and reflect on how to do better. She believes in

I spoke with Josefina Horton once more, she stated, "I told David to leave me alone that our relationship was not working out with the way he is treating me. I wanted him to leave and we began to argue, it happened so quick the next thing I remember was his hands on my throat I couldn 't breath. I tried yelling for help, but his grip was tight on my throat."

At age fourteen I began fulfilling a more demanding role at the dance studio; I was asked by the director if I was interested in being an assistant for a few of her larger classes. As I walked into class the day I started assisting, I was feeling slightly nervous, but I was mostly excited to finally have the opportunity to be an example for others. More so, I felt honored that the director—someone I looked up to—thought I was ready to serve as that example. Nevertheless, my nerves were getting to me, and I hoped I was successfully managing everything that was expected of me.

Ms. Zavada told me on Tuesday that she would be absent today. Since Ms. Zavada was absent, a substitute teacher came into the classroom while I taught all of the classes. I was slightly nervous about conducting class on my own, yet I knew that I was prepared to do so. I taught the assignments that Ms. Zavada had requested for each class. 8th grade took a test and played food bingo.

The classroom environment has a very bright and welcoming atmosphere and has a lot of natural light. There are nine learners in the class with five girls and four boys- a very diverse group of children. There are three tables in the classroom and three children are sat at each- the learner’s sticker

One of the things that cause me consolation is that Ms. Gonzales always calls her students friends. She has never called them students or children. Whenever the students start to get too loud or too out of control she threatens to take one of the letters in friends off the board. If all of the letters in friends are gone from the board, then the students are no longer her friends and she will treat them differently. I love how she does this because I think it helps establish a better connection between the teacher and student

It was about 6 years ago, 2010. I was a 5th grader when I got in trouble and had saturday school. I am not sure why I got in trouble, but I attended to the Saturday school and the teachers made the other kids and I to pick up trash around the playground. So I see this piece of trash under some bars, I went to pick it up and while I was putting the trash into the bag, I stood up and hit my head so hard on one of the bars. I felt so dizzy to where I just see everything spinning but I did not faint.

The only thing that stopped me from crashing a car into my math/driver’s Ed teacher’s classroom was a tree. I have given at least ten different excuses for why and how I managed to hop the curb and damage both the family Honda and a birch tree while trying to park in the school lot. I was fifteen. My feet couldn’t really reach the pedals. I forgot which one was the brake and which one was the gas.

Detailed Record of Observation: 7H45 am I arrive at the office and I am well received by Bev, the Principal Directress of the school, who walked me to meet Heidi, the 3-6 year old Directress who took me on a classroom tour while the children were still outside playing. She tells me that the 5-6 year Old does normally start their school work before others, at 8H30, because they are on a school readiness programme. These children work on a BRIGING book which enables them to be prepared for CAPS curriculum when they start Grade1. Heidi introduces me to Sherrie, her assistant.