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Introduction.
When I opened the doors of Center Grove Middle School Central I knew I was going to
finally experience what its like to be a teacher and how each of them perform their duties. The
environment was my old middle school. The department I would be observing is the music
department of the school, Mr. Samuel Fritz is the teacher that I would be observing over the next
couple weeks; I would soon learn important ways in order to become a very successful music
teacher. The sections of the music department that I observed was the choir, symphony,
orchestra, and percussion and I even got to witness some of Samuels new woodwind instruments
for his upcoming class. Samuel also had Lego sets that he himself collected throughout the years
since his childhood, not only that but a giant poster of Jimi Hendrix hangs lively above his
computer which was a pretty intensive way to enlighten his room along with his desktop drum
set. As I took a walk around the inside of the school after one of my services I felt as if I was
walking on memory lane, here I was 20 years old when I used to come to this school when I was
14. As I take a look on how the times have gotten to me it occurred to me that I was a new man, I
was ready to take hold of this experience. My opinion with the overview of the school so far is
that is a very friendly natured school where everyone is so ready to go with their teaching
which is in fact very rare; many schools do not unfortunately carry out that tradition but Center
Grove is definitely known for it.
Relate Service Learning Experience to the Classroom.
One of the things that I experienced during my service learning was the use of proper
communication throughout the classroom. From what I learned through this experience, is that
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