**On a side note: Kids say the FUNNIEST things! One of the kids, when coming in on Monday, turns to his friend and asks, "Who is that?", asking about me. The friend says, "The girl who watches." I thought that was a pretty hilarious "title"! And another student asked me, "Are you giving birth?" I'm 6 months pregnant. Very interesting way to phrase the question! :)
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Observation #3 Reflection
This was the second elementary school session I observed, and MOST unfortunately, no ESL students showed up again. I still observed and wrote many field notes, but I'm a little discouraged that there won't be much of anything I can use from them. I'm REALLY hoping that Thursday will yield the data I so desperately need from teacher/staff and student interviews! The one positive of being at the program today was that a newsletter was sent home to parents, and the coordinator gave one to me. I plan to use it as one of my three methods of data collection for triangulation purposes, "documentation collection." I've emailed the coordinator asking for any more documents they can provide me with, but I haven't gotten a response yet. If she won't respond by tomorrow, I will talk with her in person tomorrow and see if I can get anything then.
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I cracked up at the end of this post! Kids really do say the funniest things and I wish I could keep them all in a journal (my parents seem to think I would make a LOT of money doing that! haha) I sincerely wish you luck with everything you are taking on... your family, being pregnant, school, etc... I don't know how you do it! I am looking forward to reading your research, it sounds like it is going to be very insightful and thorough. I understand your frustrations.. when we have planned something so methodically throughout EDU 594 and then when we go to implement, things are completely different, it really throws us off! But I am confident that you will be able to yield some interesting and important results for the completion of your research. Keep up the good work.. hard work always pays off! :) Thank you so much for all of your encouraging comments about my project.. it is so nice to hear!
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