Date of Award
Summer 2020
Degree Type
Restricted to Claremont Colleges Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Education, MA
Program
School of Educational Studies
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Sheila Nguyen
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2020 Erica H Quinn
Keywords
first-year teacher, ethnographic narrative, school closures
Subject Categories
Science and Mathematics Education | Secondary Education | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Abstract
This ethnographic narrative spans my first year as a middle school science teacher. In it, I reflected on myself, my practices, my students, and the broader context of the school at which I was teaching, including the effects of the Covid-19 school closures. I interviewed students and their families, conducted home visits, interviewed teachers and administrators, and attended community events in order to build a story about how my identity, my students’ identities, and the histories of the community, school, and individual families all came together to create an ecology within our classroom. I then used this story to inform my classroom practices and set meaningful personal and professional goals, both for my first year of teaching and for the future.
DOI
10.5642/cguetd/183
Recommended Citation
Quinn, Erica. (2020). 2020 Hindsight: Reflections on My First Year of Teaching. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 183. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/183. doi: 10.5642/cguetd/183
