Giving to Life

In attending to my service learning hours, I have been going into more than one class per week.  The third grade teacher that I am learning from has a unique way of teaching.  Her strengths are in Cognitivism as she is very organized in the things she teaches.  She presents her subject and helps the students with sensory and material.  For example, while I was in there she brought two pans of brownies for her math lesson.  She wrote on the board two fractions asking the students to write on their white boards which fraction was the largest.  The fractions were 1/2 and 1/24.  There were approximately five students who wrote 1/24 on their board and the rest wrote 1/2.  Those that wrote 1/2 understood the fraction question asked.  She then took the two pans of brownies and showed them what 1/2 of the pan looked like, and what 1/24 of the pan looked like.  There were 23 students in class and she asked me to help cut up the brownies equally i...

For my Service Learning opportunity, I chose an elementary school near me at the foothills of Mount Ben Lomond.   The school has grades Kindergarten through sixth with 29 teachers.   There are approximately 630 students at the school. Of those students we have 9 Asians, 3 Black, 598 Caucasian, 22 Hispanic and 7 Multi Race.   The school received a “B” grade last year on their SAGE scores, but the previous year when I was employed by them, they received an “A”.     The Data Gateway information for SAGE was listed for the 2016-2017 School year as follows. For Language Arts Proficiency: State 45%, District 39% Lomond View 67%   In Mathematics Proficiency: State 47% District 42% Lomond View 70%   For Science Proficiency: State 49% District 43% Lomond View 71% DIBELS Scores: State 73% District 76% Lomond View 83% During this semester I will be working with the third grade students and helping them with math and comprehensi...