FieldBlogPost2

While taking our trip to Beachwood Middle School, it was amazing at the technology they had and were able to use it.  The funds of the school made it very appealing because of how much they are able to get regarding the Mac books that each students gets, from the state of the art facilities that everyone is able to use.  The school had a whole class that taunt the students how to use a video production making system, and it was spectacular in seeing how many of the students could wizard through these laptops with ease.
  My first class that I had attended was an art class full of 6th graders and they were working with clay. Now I had not done clay work like they were doing until high school especially with the terminology that they were using was the same that they had been using.  From what I observed from the students was how attentive they were.  They would come straight into the class and get their supplies and get right to work.  They did not need any explanation of what was going to be done because they had stayed on the same project for several weeks to get the children used to using what they know.  They all worked rather independently and got along with one another.  Seeing them all get along was very good to see especially with how diverse the class was, but there seemed to be shunning of students to another.  The students had their own lockers where they grab their supplies from and also have small cubicles where they place book bags and other things they bring with them.  The teacher had told of that he holds different activities for different age groups, and is only given about 6 weeks which is class that he is given because of other electives the children take.
  The next class that I had visited was a 6th grade English class and right from the start the kids had gotten straight to work and the teacher acknowledged them for doing what they were suppose to do.  The way the desks were aligned in a row in rows, touching side by side, and the students were set into groups later on in the period.  The lesson plan was written on the board and students would come in and open up their laptops where they opened up a tab on the internet, and began to write down vocals words that they would find in the books they were reading at the time.  The students themselves are very active and participate a lot during events.  Some are even so active that they notice mistakes that the teachers misses during the lesson.
  I thought that in all, the school was one of the better schools I have ever entered.  The criteria to attend the school was that of a top notch school and it was a rather larger school, that is located in the Division 3 of high school sports.  The location of the school is perfect too, especially with the location of the school in the area of so many different cities.  Meeting the Principal and especially hearing the school counselor talk about how highly he thought of the school just showed the type of school it was and was going to become.