Personal Narrative: My Field Experience With The AVID Class

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For my field experience, I went to Fort Caroline Middle: the AVID Program. I had no estimate what to expect as a future educator as I’m only given limited background on what to expect. I’ve arrived early, and was curious what students I would cultivate with. In addition, I have grown fears consciously that I won’t be able to perform the tasks like my guided teacher has taken. I created self-doubt for me to worry about, and was curious if the students I work with are intimidating or will discriminate me for my appearance and beliefs. Then I realized, I was being judgmental towards not just myself, but towards my students as well. The evening before my first day, I wrote questions for myself to ask the teacher. These questions followed with …show more content…

Shakespeare is an AVID coordinator of Fort Caroline, and she assigned me to another teacher. Thus, I was assigned Ms. Hawkins for A-Days. On my first day, I walked in the doorways of the institution and introduced myself to the staff and faculty. All members were friendly and asked why I was at that place. I explained to them who was I and gave them info for the AVID program. They understood, and asked a student in the office to walk me over to the classroom in which the program took place. I was assigned to a 7th grade classroom. As I traveled to my classroom, eighty percent of the students were predominantly African-American. In addition, there were some Caucasians, Hispanics, and mixed descent in some children. In every classroom, heavy amounts of diversity were present. I introduced myself to Ms. Hawkins and gave her a letter given on the first day. Hawkins was very polite and gave instructions on how the AVID program works. As I observed the classroom, many of the students were timid and well spoken. All children were friendly and many of them were African American; only one student was Caucasian. However, it doesn’t take away the fact that there weren’t any diversity issues. The lesson Ms. Hawkins lectures is really diverse and follows the Common

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