The main office was easy to locate. School hours are from 7:45am to 2:30pm. Students take 7 classes each semester. The average class size was 26 students to one teacher. Approximately 1,790 students attend Springbrook and 42.4% are females and 57.6% are male’s students, 9.7% (170 students) are in special education, graduation rate is 84.9%, attendance rate is 93.6%, dropout rate is 7.2% and suspension rates is 3.7%. Mr. Cooper shared this information with Jessica and I. Information and statistics can be located by clicking, Springbrook at a glance.
This data is provided by the Montgomery school department. The school offers students and International Baccalaureate (IB) high school diploma. Students may start taking IB courses …show more content…
Theater 1 was an elective, therefore, it was a fun class. Students were advertising a product. All of the ninth grade English classes were classified as Honors courses. For both classes, Honors English 9 and 11 inclusions the students were taking a test. The word inclusion in this particular school meant that there was a special education teacher or paraprofessional in the classroom. Their task was to monitor behavior and make testing accommodations for the special education students. The test consisted of defining the spelling words. Ambivalent, audacious, analogy, cajole, and brash are some of the words they were asked to define. For freshman student’s, the curriculum level was challenging. I searched some of the words because I was not familiar with some of the words. As for AP language the students were working on the following phrase, “In fact, the Philippines consists of more than eight thousand islands.” Students were asked to identify the prepositional nouns, verbs, and adjective and type, structure, part of speech and arrangement of the phrase. It was impressive to see how students were knowledgeable about these all the structures of the …show more content…
Before class began Jessica and I were introduced to most of the English teachers. This allowed us to move around the classrooms without any inconveniences. The four classes that we were moving around were in close proximity of each other. The teachers and Mr. Cooper were very cooperative with Jessica and I. To be honest all the levels of Honors classes (Honors inclusive, honors, honors cohort, AP and IB) confused me a lot. I did not like it. I felt that if a student was in Honors Inclusive they were disciplined and they were not expected to perform their best in class. For instance, for Honors English Inclusive 9, the teacher told me, “Well, I have 8 students with IEP’s, some ESOL students, and I have one that is homeless. Since we are testing today most of the students will behave