Thursday, December 13, 2007
community service
Cheer leading has alway been a huge part of my life. At Montclair State I am a member of the cheer leading squad. As a team we like to get involved in the community as well. For the past two month every Wednesday me and three other girls from the team volunteer in Rutherford High School to help coach cheer leading. We basically go to the school for about two hours and teach them different stunts in cheer leading. We did not know how it was going to be until we got there the first week. We had to start from the beginning. There is 12 girls on the squad and only 2 have every cheered before. It was a challenge to have to start from the basic but I loved to get involved and help them learn it. Each week you can see the girl growing as a team and really coming together. Two months later the girls are looking better and there goal as a team is to competed at a local competition. I feel the girls really wanted to be and that is what makes the experience great. The competition season has just started so i have another 4 months with these girls. I feel helping out in a community unlike the one i was brought up in helps we widen my view on life and teaching. I hope to one day teach in an urban school and just by volunteering it helps you take the first step to success.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Arts High School
FINALLY! Today I finally got to observe in Arts High School! It was an very interesting day. I was not sure what to expect when spending the day in a classroom with a teacher in Newark! I was definitely excited to go!
It all started about a month ago when i got signed a teacher to observe. I would email the teacher everyday asking when I can come in. I finally got so mad that today I just decide to show up and go with the teacher. The teacher was shocked to find out that I was there waiting for him. After talking to him for a little I realize he has not checked his email in a while. In his classroom where he teaches health he does not have a computer. He said if he had a computer he would of probably show my email and got back to me.
Arts High School in Newark is alot different and similar to my High School in many ways. It is the same because it is a place where you go to learn and decide what path in life to choice. I grew up in an Suburban area which is different than a inner city school. They way the children talk to each other and the way the act is not the same. They have a different liftstyles. but different doesnt make it wrong it is just different. Growing up you alway hear the Stereotypes of teaching in an inner city school. You really do not know anything until you visit a school in Newark. In Arts the students are there because they were picked. They have a goal in life to become something like everybody else.
The day i observed i got to watch two 10th grade health classes. This was great because my major is Physical Education and Health. A lot of times when observing i only get to see the gym but this time i got to see health. The students in both classes were different. The morning class was quite and calm. There was only 15 students in that class. The class was 80 mintues because of block Scheduling. The other class was loud and crazy. They were the dancers as the teacher put it. They come to health after being in their dance class which means they are all wild. I was good to see two different types of classes. You see how it can be when nobody wants to talk or how it is when they cant stop talking.
It all started about a month ago when i got signed a teacher to observe. I would email the teacher everyday asking when I can come in. I finally got so mad that today I just decide to show up and go with the teacher. The teacher was shocked to find out that I was there waiting for him. After talking to him for a little I realize he has not checked his email in a while. In his classroom where he teaches health he does not have a computer. He said if he had a computer he would of probably show my email and got back to me.
Arts High School in Newark is alot different and similar to my High School in many ways. It is the same because it is a place where you go to learn and decide what path in life to choice. I grew up in an Suburban area which is different than a inner city school. They way the children talk to each other and the way the act is not the same. They have a different liftstyles. but different doesnt make it wrong it is just different. Growing up you alway hear the Stereotypes of teaching in an inner city school. You really do not know anything until you visit a school in Newark. In Arts the students are there because they were picked. They have a goal in life to become something like everybody else.
The day i observed i got to watch two 10th grade health classes. This was great because my major is Physical Education and Health. A lot of times when observing i only get to see the gym but this time i got to see health. The students in both classes were different. The morning class was quite and calm. There was only 15 students in that class. The class was 80 mintues because of block Scheduling. The other class was loud and crazy. They were the dancers as the teacher put it. They come to health after being in their dance class which means they are all wild. I was good to see two different types of classes. You see how it can be when nobody wants to talk or how it is when they cant stop talking.
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