First Year Teaching, and it Began in Los Santos

<p>The ethnographic narrative is a mixture of my journey to education as well as my experience as a first-year teacher. Working in an underserved area in Southern California provided me the opportunity to reach students with similar backgrounds as my own. Being Mexican-American, I pride myself in giving back to my community, and this ethnography provided me that avenue to reach countless students with similar stories to mine.</p> <p>The three focus students you will see were my primary focus; however, data is collected from over 120 7th-grade students-- the majority of which are Latino. All of my classroom assignments and exit tickets are posted on Google Classroom which allows me to collect data on my students progress on a daily basis. For their unit assessments and other major assessments, students use illuminate.com which allows me to track which Common Core State Standards they are mastering and what standards they need more assistance on.</p> <p>The one significant challenge I encountered was the culture and beliefs of the charter school I was at. First, the charter school has adopted a pre-designed curriculum that does not allow for much creativity for the teacher. They have also lowered the standards for traditional grades which will be discussed later in the prompt. The school itself does not encourage teachers to freely teach; instead, it programs teachers to teach their way without accounting for the needs of individual students.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Education, MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Educational Studies

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Davaloz, Davon A

Contributors dc:contributor

• Caitlin King
• Katherine Cooke
• Andre Chen-Feng

• English
• Teacher
• Education
• Los Santos
• Social Justice
• Students
• Higher Education and Teaching
• Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching
• Prison Education and Reentry
• Secondary Education
• Secondary Education and Teaching

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/121

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1152