Prompt #2

Having gone to my school, the Brown School, and observe the classroom and the teacher, Mrs. Flower, I've seen that most of the students are rambunctious and don't sit still for too long. This is a 4th grade class, but it seems like it is a kindergarten class. The students have a real hard time sitting still, and Mrs. Flower and myself have to constantly tell them to quiet down. Mrs. Flower has a system that she uses where she will count to 5, and stay on a number until all of the students would have their fingers up at 1,2,3...5. There are some students in this system who are quiet right away, while it would take others a couple of seconds to understand what was going on. My role in this classroom is to help during the science period of the day. I help put the experiments together and then pass out the materials to the students. After myself and Mrs. Flower explain the experiment to the students, I then walk around and ask students questions to help them along in their observations. I do this in order to get answers from the students and get their views on the experiments and what is going on.

According to Infoworks, 61% of the school is Hispanic, 23% White, 13% African American and 3% Asian. To me, this is a very diverse school because of the almost overwhelming Hispanic culture, whereas the next closest group is Whites. Even more astounding to me is that 88% of the students do not recieve some form of ESL learning, which means that most of the students don't need assistance. also, this school is slightly above the state average in Math, Reading and Writing. In Writing, this school is 20 points above the state average, which is really good. I'm pretty sure that there is an embodied cultural capital in this school, because it would seem that the students are well aware of the socialization in the schools. The classroom is set up in groups of 4 students, where each group is diversified, and the students work well together, because they see the need to work together. Mrs. Flower's class is diverse because there is a large majority of Hispanic students, as well as African American students. The class only consists of maybe 4 white students and 2-3 Asian students.