My Reflection and Experience
- After coming to this site, Monte Bella Elementary School, Salinas, CA for my Service Learning opportunity, it brought back memories of me being a young student attending a K-12 class. The environment was calm and helping teachers with a new generation of students was a great experience. My responsibilities with the school was to help a 5th grade teacher and her classroom. I assisted with reading assignments, class work, and interacted with both teachers and students. During the time I interacted with class, I found myself learning that some students are shy, extroverted, troublemakers, courteous, engaged, disadvantaged , etc. However, each student comes from a different background and they all need direction no matter the circumstance and I was very grateful to help them stay on track. It helped me to realize how each student learns differently in classroom on every spectrum, but also how the class learns as a team. To anyone wanting to help young kids in a classroom, its important to know that students like having a good role model to guide them as a group and at times one-on-one help to make the atmosphere easy to learn. The school itself is in a very comfortable environment; surrounded by a nice neighborhood, but also next door to a poor community in the rest of Salinas. Concerning this, it had me wondering if some, most, or all students live in a poor or invested neighborhood, especially the one surrounding the school. Like rest of Salinas being a majority Hispanics/Latino, the school is approximately 95 percent of Hispanic/Latino students (For more Data on Salinas community click on Data USA below). Also with this population pattern, I encourage students to meet and learn from people in different ethnic backgrounds. On the other hand, I was able to relate with the students ( sometimes in Spanish) and even learn with them as their 5th grade teacher would give some lessons in Spanish. From my experience I learned and always knew that no matter where you are at in life, everyone needs a mentor.
- Data USA- https://datausa.io/profile/geo/salinas-ca/
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