Rainbow Children's Home Observation

Introduction When an education major is in their first college education courses, they are faced with the daunting task of entering a new place, new atmosphere, and essentially a whole new world to observe the ways of what they someday hope to become; a teacher. Their assigned teacher has already been through what the education majors are going to be experiencing for the very first time for numerous minutes, hours, and days. This task is more commonly referred to as ‘observation hours’. The usual setting for observation hours is in your typical elementary, middle, or high school. Every day the education major goes in and sits in on a class and observes the teacher and their normal classroom operation. They learn what to do and what not to

This makes this time of transition a very fragile and scary experience. The Dahlonega Rainbow Children’s Home is aware of this, so they make it their priority to make each and every resident, child, girl, truly happy and comfortable. They do this difficult task by setting goals. The goals of this organization are to provide children with the three basic elements needed to survive. These elements are food, clothing, and shelter. After meeting the necessities of survival, The Rainbow Children’s Home focuses on getting every girl to where she needs to be academically, emotionally, and mentally. They aim to accomplish these goals by teaching independent living skills, such as doing their own laundry, cooking meals, and personal hygiene. The Dahlonega Rainbow Children’s Home works on improving each resident’s mental health by supplying mental health counseling to every girl, and there are always two staff members in the home with the children to ensure their safety. The maximum occupancy of the home is eight girls at a time. This maximum occupancy gives the staff members the ability to watch over and work with each girl more easily than having many girls running about the house all at once. All the girls in the home are very different from one another, but yet somehow all get