Demographics of Service Learning Hours

Demographics of Service Learning Environment
I will be conducting my service learning hours experience at Amelia Earhart Elementary School in Hialeah. This school is located in a predominantly Hispanic community. This school is a Dade County Public School. The person I am assigned to observe for my experience is Mrs. Jobson. Mrs. Jobson is a first grade teacher at this school and has been for over eighteen years. Mrs. Jobson is a Black American teacher with a Caribbean background. Mrs. Jobson has been teaching for thirty eight years.
Mrs. Jobson first grade class has a good ratio of boys and girls and comprises a total of eighteen students. At the time of my service experience Mrs. Jobson had two more students added to her class. All of Mrs. Jobson first grade class is Hispanic. There is not another ethnic group represented in this classroom other than the teacher. Regardless of this fact the learning experience is not hindered in any fashion. All the students in this school are preparing and finalizing the work in order to take the F.C.A.T. and S.A.T. testing. Mrs. Jobson first grade class will take the S.A.T. and not the F.C.A.T.
Mrs. Jobson first grade class exhibits a cooperative approach to education. Students are grouped and arranged in this style and teaching and learning is also conducted using this approach. Mrs. Jobson teaches math, science, art, music, physical education, and social studies for this grade. This school uses a split teaching approach. For reading, and language arts are taught by another teacher. Therefore, the school schedule is split. The first half of the morning the students are with Mrs. Jobson and for the other half of the day with Ms. Bonnet. Then for thirty minutes in between the split a teacher comes in and teaches only Spanish to the students. Then for the last thirty minutes of the school day the students return back to Mrs. Jobson and the other students return back to their teacher. This school welcomes the community to be a part of the school. This school also provides workshop for the people in the community. During my service learning hours the other teachers and staff members I encountered treated me with dignity and respect.