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Education 202
Final Case Study
This past semester I have had the amazing opportunity to go to
Green Leaf Elementary School and spend time in Ms. Js second grade
classroom full of twenty-five joyful students. Through my time here I
have been able to spend time with and observe Mary. Mary is a
dynamic 7-year-old White female, who seems to never run out of
energy or passion. Mary appears to be persistent in her work even
though has been recently diagnosed with ADHD and seems to have
trouble completely focusing in class (K. Jones, personal interview,
October 14, 2015). By the time I arrived at Green Leaf Elementary, Ms.
J had already met with several people to discuss workload adjustments,
offering her after school help, and implementing a mentor that she
would be able to spend time with whenever possible. Although she
seems to have a fun-loving personality, she is labeled an at-risk learner
because of a variety of factors that surround her. I will be focusing on
the impact of economics, race, culture, language, memory, attention,
and social development in regards to Mary and how these affect her
learning.
In order to better understand the demographics of the
neighborhood, I examined statistics from the Community Research
Institute from 2010. Green Leaf Elementary School is located in the
northeast corner of Wyoming, Michigan. This is a neighborhood that is
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