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Ethnography Stage 2: Culture in Your Fieldwork Community and Classroom Writing Template

ChenFan Zhu (Tony)

EDUC 140

11/9/2015

A. Students will acquire a deeper understanding of the culture of the community of their fieldwork site.

1. Research the school’s website and report on the demographics of the student population.

Ethnic groups reported at the school: Black or African America: 13.9% American Indian or Alaska Native: 2.4% Asian: 15.3%. Filipino: 1.8% Hispanic or Latino: 54.6% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander: 0.6% White: 8.1% Two or More Races: 3.2% ELs: 32% Special education: Totally: 8.7% In this part, socioeconomically disadvantaged: 92.2% 69 students with disabilities. Gender: Female: 49.9% Male: 50.1% Other Title I: Migrant Education Title II: Homeless Title III Improving Teacher Quality Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Programs: Extend day.

2. Write a two-paragraph reflection about what you’ve learned about the culture of the community and the school.

Community and school are other families. According to some studies, both the teachers and the students are better motivated in a stronger school culture. The implementation of a clear mission statement, shared vision, and schoolwide goals promote increased bother the students and the teachers’ achievement. What’s more, by deepening understand of school culture, leaders can be better equipped to shape the values, beliefs, and attitudes necessary to promote a stable and nurturing learning environment. We can see that school culture is very important. But, what is school culture, anyway? Opinions vary on this matter. E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson noted that “culture includes deep patterns of values, beliefs, and traditions that have been formed over the course the school’s history. “ Paul E. Heckman’s defined “School culture lies in the commonly held beliefs of teachers, students, and principals.” As for me, I think that school culture should contain the beliefs of present teachers, students and principal, but also the history of the school.

2.1 United and friendly community culture The layout of

The dispersion and small settlement" has cultivated strong relative sense of Nationality. No matter where and when it is, people can find the sense of family quickly from warm- hearted language of a soulful song of community. Nationality is a friendly nationality. people often say water from afar wouldn’t help quench a fire nearby and a distant relative is not as good as a near neighbor. When interacting with people nearby, people are gentle, kind and ready to help others. Nationalities have made profound friendship. They learn strong points from the other to offset weakness, mutually integrate and step forward altogether. A proverb of a neighbor has said:”we are all in one family and then yellow soil will change into gold".

Retirement living supported by community sports culture enables the elderly to master some sports knowledge and skills which are unreachable for them due to their routine busyness, thus enriching their cultural entertainment life; it also enables the elderly to exhale carbon dioxide out of and breath some fresh air into their spiritual world, and to enjoy emotional nourishment brought by interpersonal communication in their sports cultural life. In the authors’ opinion, ways to realize the manner of retirement living supported by community sports culture include the followings: 1)the government and various social organizations should increase their inputs in terms of policy support and funds for community elderly sports cultural construction; 2)communities themselves should boost the perfection of networks supporting retirement living supported by community sports culture by basing the carrier on various community cultural sports service resources. In terms of community sports cultural service subject, we should change the elderly’s retirement living conception, and gradually realize the goal for them to have a happy retirement life. Moreover, workers who provide the elderly with the service of retirement living supported by sports culture should enhance their own quality, exert their guiding and promoting role, and boost the actual implementation of retirement living supported by community sports culture.

3. Reflect on the findings from the school website in a two-paragraph statement.

On the school website,Firstly, the quality of the food is bad. For instance, the rice is too hard. What's more, some dishes are not fresh sometimes. As a matter of fact, the poor food has already caused some stomach problems among the students.

 Nowadays a lot of schools keep their students in school all day long. We have different ideas about that. Now let me tell you our opinions.

Some of us hold the idea that if the school keep us all day long ,our freedom will be limited. Moreover, we may lose a lot of social opportunities. Besides, we can't develop our interests and hobbies well.

One coin has two sides, some students think that school is a space to learn the knowledge, the only thing we should do is staying there to study. What's more, because we lack self-awareness, without the guide of teachers, we may make mistakes.

In my view, it would be better that school don't keep us in school all day long. After all ,textbook knowledge is not the only thing we should learn.

4. Identify the demographics of your classroom and write a two-paragraph reflection on the ways the demographics of the school are reflected in your classroom.

In this class and grade, has the sincere friendship, has clear showing loving concern, has the guidance earnestly ......I love my class, because that is “the paradise which loves”. here, not only has our common friendship, but also has our teacher to excite the emotions. In teacher's eye we are not only he (she) student, he (she) the friend, in our student's eye, is also so. In our class is the teachers and students, under the class is the friend. in this harmonious big family, has compared to a dear ones thicker sentiment, has compared to dear ones more loves. In here, not lonely, not sad, has not felt inferior, only then happy, happy, happy ......Because everybody are offering, is showing loving concern 。

Ethnic groups reported at the school

Black or African American: 4 students

Asian: 5 students

Hispanic or Latino: 7 students

White: 8students

Gender

Female: 14 students

Male: 16 students

Languages spoken in the homes of students

English: all students speak it at home.

Spanish: 9students.

B. Students will include a map of the neighborhood and discuss available resources near the school.

Name of school: Cleveland Elementary School.

First Baptist Christian School.

First Baptist Church of Stockton

Chinese Christian Mission

University of the pacific

1. Indicate on a map of the neighborhood the locations of available resources in the community.

The community is near the downtown ,it is a very beautiful place .Every morning ,there are many flowers and trees on both sides of the main road ,all the people living here can enjoy the fresh air everyday. the people in our community are very friendly ,they like to help each other and share ideas with each other.  There are three blocks in the middle. There is a beautiful garden in front of Block 2.

2. Write a two-paragraph narrative about the resources in the neighborhood.

School teaching resource library building program

Our teachers to enhance the application of information technology education level, so that information resources and services in the usual teaching work, thus improving the quality of teaching, combined with my school actually formulated plan.

First, the establishment of "School Building Information Resource Base" group leader: Deputy Head: Members:

Second, the specific implementation

1, the use of campus network system, enrich the school FTP repository in perfect school site established on the basis of scientific repository directory, and set up all subdirectories. (Attachment: List of School Resource Library directory)

2, held a "School Building Information Resource Base" Work Leading Group meeting, serious deployment-related work, a clear division of labor, task decomposition, issued indicators to discuss related issues.

3, centralized training and self-learning and other forms of business use of learning time to strengthen teacher training school, so teachers master the courseware modification, data downloads and uploads and other commonly used to collect basic way to make it better serve the classroom .

4, The school can have connection with the wellness center in UOP.with grade division as a unit, with teaching and research as the starting point for each teacher carefully crafting, modify courseware, and pay attention to make the plot set-disciplinary lesson plans, papers, papers, courseware and other information, upload work (for the use of courseware or teaching materials timely modify and upload), each section group must upload all of lesson plans, teachers' papers, courseware each semester each section group 10 or more must be uploaded to the teaching resources of storage, scientific head of the corresponding levels of screening data , sorting and subtotals to the appropriate subdirectory.

C. Students will attend and report on a parent-based meeting at the school (PTA, School Oversight Committee, Bilingual Advisory Committee, etc.)

1. Describe the meeting with parents that you attended and note the roles of individuals who attended (parents, teachers, administrators, students, etc.).  Write a two-paragraph reflection on what you learned about the community, students, and parents from the parent-based meeting.

the PTA meeting decides use 150 dollars for AR party, 75 dollars for Map party, 100 dollars for popcorn party and 38 dollars for supporting free lunch to students. School and community give the PTA the authority of decision. Most students in the class are more lively, lovely, positive enterprising, are able to love the class group, relationship to others.

①. Parents talk about student performance in holiday situations.

②.Teachers report to parents student vacation job completion.

③. Parents and teachers of the above problems and to propose some solution to the problem! Nine, teachers and parents exchange: students and teachers to do some parents do emphasize and requirements.

Put forward some demands and recommendations to parents to deal with the problems of teachers:

. Because the school campus is not hardened, grade three small children, so parents should be replaced student clothes.

②. If students want to leave something must submit written request for leave or call the teacher.

③ Parents and teachers should take the initiative to contact to keep abreast of the students in the school situation.

④. Home as parents should supervise their children much more than learning, improve student achievement.

parents comment on the teacher or school or suggestions:

①. Since the parents do not know the word, or long periods of unattended children at home, so I hope to strengthen the child's teacher education in schools.

②. Hope that the instructor can have more contact with parents, communication, and timely feedback to the parents of student learning.

③. I hope that schools can harden as soon as possible on campus to give children a good learning environment.

2. Apply what you learned from this meeting to your understanding of culture in your classroom in a two-paragraph reflection.

Both the teachers and the students are better motivated in a stronger school culture. The implementation of a clear mission statement, shared vision, and schoolwide goals promote increased bother the students and the teachers’ achievement. What’s more, by deepening understand of school culture, leaders can be better equipped to shape the values, beliefs, and attitudes necessary to promote a stable and nurturing learning environment.

D. Students will identify the level of involvement of parents in the school.

1. Write a two-paragraph reflection on your impression of the involvement and interest of parents in the parent-based meeting you attended.

Learning Together was developed by Johnson and Johnson in 1975 and then was widely used. The typical description of the method was that students worked as a group to complete a single group task, share ideas and materials, and help each other before presenting the questions to the teacher. All members should get involved and understand group answers. In the end, teacher praises and rewards the group based on the group performance.

2. Write a two-paragraph reflection based on a conversation with your cooperating teacher about parental involvement in your classroom. Include ways that your cooperating teacher invites and includes parents in learning activities. Describe any differences for parents of English speaking students and English learners.

In my classroom, the parents of English speaking students communicate with teacher more than English learners. or some teachers have noticed that but do not know how to teach this ability in their classes properly and effectively. The same situation can be found in junior school English classes. The traditional teaching approaches are still extensively used by many junior school English teachers in a pure way. The teacher-centered approaches go against the current teaching conception that students should become the center of classroom activities. Such teachers solely input knowledge into their students by consuming most of the class time, while the students can only acquire knowledge passively. Given that the total academic hours are limited, students can have access to very little amount of time to practice and communicate both with their classmates and teachers. Through investigation and search for the major institutions of the network, found that the current in the country Private parent-child educational institutions, private way parental involvement activities, parenting education institutions generally have a variety of courses, large

Type group activities, parents lecture, send SMS or E-mail, phone calls, meet with the teacher and so on. However, parents mainly through the

Types of courses, large group activities, parent committees, also known as a school for parents to participate in three ways.

E.  Students will connect research from readings to their observations in the community, school, and classroom.

There has a strong connection between the community, school and classroom. Private parent-child educational institutions should regularly

Featured organized family activities, such as "baby born mouth would," "Baby forward" and other activities, may be held "in accordance with section six ports

Home-school link a variety of ways, you can go out and, of course, you can, please come. For school located in rural areas, most parents educational level is not high enough and so teaching children the art of display cases, we can carry out home-school liaison work in the form of parents, so that parents understand their children in school performance and learning at the same time, for parents to educate their children scientific method, pass the correct views on education and so on work. This corresponds to healthy growth of students, the smooth development of school work have a very positive role in promoting.