Prompt One

The neighborhood around the school isn't very nice. Down the street from the school there was a homeless person asking for money. The school itself doesn't look too bad. The lockers look a little broken but other then that I don't think there is too much wrong with it. Every classroom has a TV and VCR avaliable to the teacher. The classroom I am in is very crowded. It looks like the teacher has saved everything she has ever recieved. It also is very unorganized. She has a hard time finding things. The walls and white boards are covered with different posters and assignments. There are also a lot of papers covering up the counter near the windows. I honeslty am not sure how she finds anything. The students were very friendly and excited to have me in the classroom. They opened up to me easily. They showed me what they were working on and helped me to catch on. They sat in tables not desks so they had a pile of materials in the middle of the table. The teacher told me anything the students used she had to buy out of her own pocket because there wasn't any in the school. I think the teacher likes the students to be independent. I have not really seen her teach the class. She constantly asks the students what are you suppose to be doing. They always have a list of work that they are suppose to do and it seems almost redundent. They do the same papers everytime I'm there except with different problems. Today was my fourth time going to the school but my first time actually working with a certain group of kids. The teacher wasn't sure what I was suppose to be doing. I talked to the literacy coach and she gave me a group of students and different games to play with them. I think the kids in this class listen better then the kids I worked with in a higher class communtiy. It reminds me of the Delpit article. The part were she tells him to get into the bath rather then asking him. Most of them seemed to listen well. There was one student she has sitting directly behind her and facing the white board. I don't agree with this I think she is seperating him too much but I don't know him well enough to say it's wrong. Other then that it seems like a good classroom.