Fieldwork Reflection Essay

Fieldwork Reflection

The fieldwork was completed at EEC (Early Education Center) in Chiara’s classroom. Chiara classroom is a self contain class with 12 students. Each student is an “at-risk” child. There are three children in that class that speak multiple languages. These three students are the ones I focused on my fieldwork. For this assignment purpose I will change the names of these students. I worked with two children who’s first language is Spanish on 4/25/16 and 4/26/16. Both days I spent 4 hours doing different activities with the students. The third child first language is English second language was Italian. I worked with him on 4/27/16 and 4/28/16. I spent 4 hours each day working with this child individually. Each child is very unique and their level of understanding varies from child to child. The first child Jose is a very intelligent

I choose to work with these two students together because Jose level of comprehension is higher than Carlos. If Carlos had a difficult time Jose could help Carlos with what he did not understand. That week the teacher theme was Rainbows and Flowers. I based my activities with these two students on the theme of the week. The teacher had different stations set up through the classroom. I picked a section and brought the children to those stations. We did multiple different activities for example color matching game, puzzles, read books, painted, drawing and singing. I picked these activities with the students because they were more visual learners. These students need visuals to understand especially if they can not express them selves in the English language. Out of all the activities these two students enjoyed the books, singing and puzzles. The books I choose had a lot of visuals and repetition. After a while the students would pick up on certain vocabulary being said from the books. The books I choose had a lot of songs within the book. This made them very