by Michael LaCroix 9 years ago
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I really enjoyed the new school even though we were juniors. it was much different there, we could walk around and leave for lunch if we wanted, the passing periods were 12 minutes, it was a lot more like going to college then high school so you could say it was pretty progressive.
My teaching experience was very essentialist in 10th grade, we read the classics in English and we had a lot of testing.
My favorite teacher was Mr. Heath, he was crazy but he was really intelligent and I learned a lot in his class.
I loved 9th grade, I made a lot of good friends, and we were combined with the other schools on the other side of town so now there were all kinds of new people to get to know which made it alot of fun.
I remember the last day of school I road the bus home with my buddy Tony, and we got to skate all over his neighborhood which was a huge sprawling area with tons of kids from school.
My favorite teacher was my history teacher Mr. Dirker. He was really enthusiastic about his class and he had a lot of fun explaining the events that occurred to shape Americas History.
Carroll Middle School was a totally renovated school. Everything was brand new and it was much nicer then the intermediate school that I attended the previous year. It was still in Southlake so the demographic stayed pretty much the same.
I dont remember alot of 6th grade cause it wasnt that fun for me andI didnt enjoy my time at Carroll intermediate School
This was a very old school and needed a lot of renovation, I remember the gym teacher was really young, but she was very impatient with us, and our computer lab was so small we had to share.
It seemed like this was when social groups were really starting to develop, and guys and girls were starting to decide what was cool, and what was not cool, different social groups took place, and I didn't really know where I belonged.
I didn't like second grade very much, I remember we had this one kid who was always causing trouble in our class, and I always got in fights with this one kid Ben Small, so we always had to sit out on recess.
She was a very essentialist teacher, it was much different then 1st grade. There was a lot more emphasis on writing and I remember we did a lot of talking in front of the class to help with our ability at public speaking. I liked her but she could really strict sometimes.
Southlake was a suburb located in between Dallas and Fort Worth. It was made up of all groups of people, from Hispanics, African Americans, Asians, and Caucasians. But most of these families were of middle and upper class. The population was made up of Texas Rangers Baseball players, CEO's of multinational companies, the GM of the Veranda club, or better yet, your teacher! So over all Southlake was a nice place to live and grow up as a student, the schools were well funded, and the taxes made sure of it.
Johnson Elementary consisted of 4 grades, 1st through 4th and had around 25 kids per class. Most of the students came from middle or upper class families whose parents picked them off and dropped them off everyday. The school had excellent technology that was used for teaching math science and critical thinking skills.
We had studied all the usual subjects, like math, science, history, reading and writing of course, but we also went to the computer lab twice a week where we would play these educational games. Looking back on it, it was pretty progressive cause they were using these computer games to teach us math, science, and critical thinking skills, in turn we as students enjoyed getting to play games so everyone was a winner. We also went to P.E. twice one week, and then three times the next, I remember being very active all day and always coming inside sweaty. We must have stunk to all the teachers!
Our School lunches weren't very good from what I remember. The lunch ladies were really nice though. The school would try to pass off this really terrible pizza as "Pizza Hut" pizza, and I even told the lunch lady that I was going to sue them for false advertisement. I pretty much brought my lunch 1st through 4th grade almost every day. I lived right behind the school so even if I forgot it I could just walk home and get it.
I remember most how nice she was, and that she played the Unukalhai all the time in class. She was very patient with all of the students, and really cared about her position, and understood the care she should take for her students.
Her patients with the students in turn led to us feeling comfortable asking her questions, this asking questions results in us learning more and therefore becoming better students.
Overall my first grade experience is remember as something extremely positive in my life. I believe this is because of my teacher Mrs. Grassfield. She had a very progressive outlook on education, she aloud us to be ourselves, and also used music to help educate us. She had a very student centered teaching philosophy and always kept in mind that every student was different and sometimes she had to adjust her teaching style to accommodate for those students.
