Perfecting the Craft of Teaching

<p>This ethnographic narrative follows my journey as a fifth grade teacher in the greater Los Angeles area. The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the development of my journey as a first-year teacher. In this ethnography, I explore my positionality and the levels of community, school, and classroom as ways to inform and improve my teaching practices as a social-justice educator. I begin this four part narrative by discussing my positionality and how it relates to my desires of becoming a teacher. Through this narrative, I was then able to conduct three case studies of students with different identities and needs. As I studied my students’ environments: community, school, classroom, and home, I learned of the importance that student-teacher relationships have on student academic achievement and socio-emotional well-being. This ethnographic narrative, however, was abruptly interrupted by a global pandemic as a result of COVID-19. There were nationwide school closures and schooling resulted in distance learning. COVID-19 was a true testament that a successful classroom ecology and positive student-teacher relationships are key to academic excellence whether it is in a physical or virtual classroom.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Teacher Education Internship Program (MA/Credential)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Educational Studies

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Nunez, Stephanie

• Classroom Ecology
• Social Justice Educator
• Greater Los Angeles
• Pandemic
• Distance Learning
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Curriculum and Social Inquiry
• Early Childhood Education
• Educational Methods
• Elementary Education
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• Online and Distance Education
• Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/164

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1197