Reflection 10
This week was my last week at North Central. Upon arriving, I found Sun again looking for some help with another speech. This time, he was working on a debate, the topic of which was minors being tried as adults in murder cases. He told me he had to argue against this situation and that he was in a group of five other students all collaborating on the SMELF protocol. I looked at the instruction sheet which said the debate would last between 20 and 30 minutes total. The instructions also included a sample of the sheet the teacher wanted the students to fill out for their sections of the debate. Sun, who had the ‘S’ of SMELF meaning safety, had a sheet broken into two repeated sections for argument, explanation, evidence, and related value. The directions modeled what the teacher expected these filled out sections to look like, as well as little instructions for what was to fill each section. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 10'»
Reflection 9
This was the second to last time I attended North Central to help tutor students. When I arrived, two students I had never seen before came over and asked if I could help with a health assignment. They explained their assignment to me saying they had to give a presentation about illegal drugs to the class and provide a handout. I noticed both of them had fairly competent conversational language skills. I introduced myself to them, and they introduced themselves to me as Ahmeir and Muhammad. A little later in the session, I found out that Muhammad was from Jordan and Ahmeir was from Iran. Unfamiliar with the two languages spoken in those countries, I wondered if the two of them would be able to collaborate using a common native language the way Sun and Bo did the week before–I did not hold out hope for this though. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 9'»
Reflection 8
This week I had the fortunate experience of working with Sun and Bo again. I remembered Bo from one of my first tutoring experiences at North Central–we had worked together on a lab report that he and other students were preparing. On this day, Bo and Sun were also working on science homework. They had been given a giant review packet from their teachers for an upcoming unit test. This packet was extensive, about 12 pages total, and filled with questions, examples, and all sorts of review information. Bo and Sun had already completed a significant amount of the packet, and they asked if I thought we could finish the rest of it in the hour. I responded that we might be able to, and so we sat down to work. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 8'»
4/8/13
Today, I worked again with Sun Light. I was less concerned this time about working with a student on science homework after my interesting experience helping Sun on his speech project. He told me as we went over to the computer stations that he was still working on his speech from the previous week and he would be delivering it on Friday to the class. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 7'»
4/1/13
I began my sixth field experience at North Central not as excited as my fifth experience the week before in which I worked with La Erb on his science and English homework. In that experience, I had begun the session happy to be working in science again. However, this week Ms. McCarthy introduced me to a student named Sun Light who was working on a speech for his speech class. She described Sun as being a strong student and said this would be a fun assignment to help with but I remained skeptical. I would not consider speech to be one of my strengths, but I set about helping Sun as best I could. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 6'»
3/4/13
For my fourth field experience Ms. McCarthy introduced me to a student named Lee and explained that he had been given an assignment to outline a speech. While English is not my content area, I decided I would try to help as much as I could with the assignment. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 4'»
2/27/13
In my third field experience at North Central, I arrived and met Ms. McCarthy at the top of the stairs. Saying she had to run off to a meeting, she directed me down the stairs where a student named Shaw Mo would meet me. Ms. McCarthy explained quickly that Shaw Mo was working on a business plan for a class and the assignment required significant creativity. So I made my way down the steps to find Shaw Mo as Ms. McCarthy headed to her meeting. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 3'»
2/21/13
This week, I switched my day at North Central to Wednesday. The school district had the day off on Monday due to Presidents’ Day. Arriving a little late because I was caught behind the school buses, I made my way to the library and downstairs to find Ms. McCarthy. I noticed many Butler students already at tables with students as Ms. McCarthy informed me that they had people already assisting the available students and we would have to split up a group so I could work one-on-one with a student. Continue reading 'Reflection: Field Experience 2'»
Reflection of my Teaching Experience
On December 6th, I had the opportunity to teach the lesson I had worked to design for Mr. Pitcock’s 7th grade science class. Because I had spent the entire semester observing this group, I had many ideas swirling around how I wanted to design the lesson, and what I wanted the students to take away from the experience. I had noted the lack of student focused instruction throughout the fall, and it was something by which I was troubled. I feel very strongly that science is a subject in which it is best to engage students with critical and authentic learning experiences where they can investigate and explore. So, in response to this, my first step, after discussing the topic of the lesson with Mr. P, was to design a classroom activity which would get students up out of their seats, and into a learning experience through which they could work together to investigate a topic for themselves.
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