Prior to this field experience I had no former interaction with charter schools so I did not know what to expect or if I would even like it. However, I came to find that School Lanes environment is the exact environment I hope to be in when I become a certified teacher. They call their school environment a “sanctuary” to shield them from the hardships of the outside world. School Lane is a place that considers all children to be gifted and because of this expectations for the students are high. Their motto is “ what you achieve today is directly related to what you do. Believe in yourself and others will believe in you”. School Lane is also all-inclusive so that students who have a particular disability do not feel secluded from the general education classrooms. The school staff and administrators at School Lane were warm and welcoming each week, which gave me a feeling of acceptance. My host teacher and co-teacher offered me a lot of advice about where I should teach, graduate programs, and gave me insight on the in’s and out’s of School Lane Charter. I was happy to have an open relationship with my host and co-teacher because my very first field experience was with a teacher who was not equally welcoming. It was also However, in the future I think that it would be even more worth-while to have Temple students go into the schools for the whole day instead of three hours. I also think it would be helpful to have a Temple coach instead of going into the schools alone. There were only a couple times in the class that we were able to talk about our field experience so having that extra mentor would increase success. In addition, I think that there should be more Temple classes pertaining to assessment because although this class was extremely helpful and I feel more secure in my knowledge of assessment then I did before. I still struggled in the beginning and was not completely clear on how to give the
While charter schools may seem appealing at first, further research shows that they, do, in fact have faults. Because of the high standards portrayed by charters, the brightest students in public schools often flee to charters in search of a better learning environment. Ironically, charter schools usually attract less-qualified teachers due to lower pay. Often, the result is many students eventually leaving the charter system, sometimes with a decrease in learning a...
To understand the actual differences of charter and public school quality of education, it is important to emphasize a fact often lost in the debate; namely, charter schools are public schools, which simply operate under different guidelines. This reality is more critical because of how perception clouds it. Charter schools are perceived as private institutions, supporters of them tend to be conservatives who feel the schools represent the value of competition in education, while opponents typically express the need for public school reform as more crucial in promoting educational equality (Rofes, 159). This political and ideological compone...
Charter schools are public schools of choice, meaning that families choose them for their children. They operate with freedom from some of the regulations that are imposed upon school districts. Charter schools are accountable for academic results and upholding the promises made in their charters.
Public and charter schools may look to be the same, but charter schools differ in many ways and have an interesting origin that is often overlooked. The concept of charter schools began in New York City around the late 1980s and early 1990s by a man name Albert Shanker. They were originally created to be teacher-run schools that would provide education and services to students struggling in the traditional school system (Karp, 2013). These schools had operated outside the administrative bureaucracy and the big city school board. Shanker initial concern was that these small charter schools were dividing the district by serving a different population with unequal access as well as weakening the power of teacher union in negotiation over district-wide policies and regulations (Karp, 2013). Because of this Shanker withdrew his support, but charters had continued to grow and states were ...
Charter schools improve education by offering students more creative approaches to learning and by giving parents more choices. In states with charter laws, students don’t have to go to their assigned school in their local school district and can enroll in any charter school. That means a student is not stuck in their zone school. They allow students from any other area the ability to enroll, but not everyone gets in because there is only a limited amount of seats. Since charter schools are granted more flexibility, they can develop more innovative programs. Effective school leadership, which includes instructional leadership, team goal-setting and distributed leadership, is one of the most important factors influencing teacher behavior and student outcomes (Wei, Patel, and Young 5). So the teachers are free to try different ways of thinking outside the box to help students learn and achieve at higher levels. Most charter schools are small in size where they know and care about each
As the rate of charter school failures continues to increase throughout the years, it has become that much more difficult for the charter school system to be taken seriously by the public. Rather than being perceived as a new found educational establishment, some are going as far as referring to the charter school sys...
As I carry on my studies in Elementary Education, The field experience assignment has been a learning and growing experience for me. This semester I did five hours in a physical education class and during my experience I learned a lot. As I spoke to the Physical Education teacher Ms. Hines, she informed me that this school year was a tough year for her. From all her classes she had two classes were a couple of kids who had disabilities and the rest of the students were only Spanish speakers. The teacher only spoke English, which caused some difficulties describing her lesson of the day to her students.
As the world continues to change and people’s beliefs continue to evolve, the schooling system has been the one thing that has remained constant throughout history and that is not a good thing. Charter schools are more advanced public schools that prioritize the students and identifying what they’d like to learn and how children’s learning needs differ from one another. Not only are charter schools more catered toward the student populous, they are designed to give students more time in the classroom working with the curriculum and trying to boost student achievement. Public schools in essence are primitive and have become outdated; public schools have been designed to just have the
Overall my classroom observation hours went pretty well, and I focused on trying to receive eight hours in SPED classes, and the other eight in classrooms that participated in inclusion this semester. I wasn 't able to follow through with my plan. I was missing two hours of observation, and with the insane weather it became more difficult to schedule anything in a regular school setting so I turned to daycare. I quickly realized that a normal school was completely different from the daycare I completely my observation hours at.
Powers, J. M. (2009). Charter schools: From reform imagery to reform reality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Describe an observation or experience at your field placement where you or a social worker's (or another worker at your field placement) decision making was impacted by spiritual beliefs.
During this semester I have had the chance to gain more knowledge and apply what I have learned to my field experience. I enjoyed having the chance to work with these students in summer school because it allowed me to see why they are struggling. Most of them just needed more guided practice and more attention to the subject. My tutee showed me how important it is to consider the seven critical factors, apply my knowledge from inside and outside of the college of education, and allowed me to analyze my global awareness of my surroundings. My tutee did not trouble with much, in fact, he understood everything just needed more guidance to follow all the instructions and to stay on task. I knew he got bored easily and my way of being successful
A requirement of a few of the education classes offered at the University of North Georgia is to complete 20 hours of “field experience.” In the past, I have fulfilled these requirements in an actual school doing one-on-one “mentoring” with students. For this class, I decided to volunteer at a summer day camp for a few days. I was surprised to see how many connections to education I was able to make throughout the course of that experience.
This Field experience was completed in Palm Springs Elementary School. I wrote and delivered lesson plans for small and whole group instruction for five days in a fourth grade group of my cooperating teacher (Number of Students in Classroom: 22, 12 Female and 10 Male, ELL Students, 1 at level I, 2 at level II, 6 at level III, 2 at level IV). This artifact consists in maintaining a journal before, during, and after this Field Experience. The journal entries were focused on observations and experiences which relate directly to the FEAPs while commenting on other elements that had personal meaning to me. I have documented the impact of my responsibilities in planning and teaching five lessons to the group described above to provide evidence
In education 2130, we are ask to volunteer our time and do field experience that in return would give back to the community. I choose to do my field experience at Lula Elementary School in Hall County. During my time there I got to observe and watch teachers teach, how they handle children’s behavior and also their classroom management. In the paper I am going to discuss my field experience and what I learned in my time spent in a classroom. I am also going to try and make connections to educational psychology and what I learned in my education class. Also I am going to reflect on my emotional and professional reactions.