2020 Hindsight: Reflections on My First Year of Teaching

<p>This ethnographic narrative spans my first year as a middle school science teacher. In it, I reflected on myself, my practices, my students, and the broader context of the school at which I was teaching<strong>, </strong>including the effects of the Covid-19 school closures. I interviewed students and their families, conducted home visits, interviewed teachers and administrators, and attended community events in order to build a story about how my identity, my students’ identities, and the histories of the community, school, and individual families all came together to create an ecology within our classroom. I then used this story to inform my classroom practices and set meaningful personal and professional goals, both for my first year of teaching and for the future.</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

2020

Author dc:creator

• Quinn, Erica

• first-year teacher
• ethnographic narrative
• school closures
• Science and Mathematics Education
• Secondary Education
• Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/183

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1177