Week 7 Learn and serve

This week at learn and serve I was able to go 2 days and rack up 10 hours. I am slowly getting up to my 100 hours. This week was a lot of drama. The teacher Nicole is a volleyball coach; she has an incident with two players and their parents. It led to a meeting with the superintendent, the parents, athletic director, and principle and of course Nicole. The school backed her 110% but the parents had 2 hours of ripping Nicole apart. So this week she was not at the top of her game. I helped out as much as I could. Graded papers and returned them. The keyboarding students were easy if the completed the assigned number of lines then they got full credit. The accounting students had worksheets to complete. The worksheet was on debits and credits and balancing accounts. If the numbers were right and the payments were also correct the students received full credit. The last class that Nicole teaches is CEIP not really sure what it stands for but it is an internship program. The students are assigned a company to intern for that relates to the field they choose and as the year goes on they have certain milestones they must meet; such as resume, goal statements , hour tracking , and a journal. This class the work is done at the internship or as homework. So during class they can play on the computers or work on other homework. The most popular site is the Polar Bowler game. Also this CEIP class also is responsible for razing money to keep the intern program running by selling pizza and pop for 1.50$

Class 7

Hallway Podcasting-

• we had to go in the hall and record our podcast with our 5 pictures, i choose my pictures from my trip to South Carolina over the summer!




• it was fun i liked it now i just have to upload it!!




• To use it in the classroom it could help the visual learners and gives the students a break from the typical classrooms




• It was difficult to get the podcast up and going but it was fun once i got to the right place

Blackboard-

• For this activity we had to draw for pictures, i chose to do pumpkins for Halloween



• then we had to name each drawing with a disability: learning disability, genetic disorder, emotional behavior disability, and intellectual and development disabilities.



• We then had to list for -five aspects of that disorder


• This activity again could engage the visual learners
  

She Stoops to conquer-

• We had to go through the play and pick out some vocabulary terms

Class 8

What are the top three things you need to know when dealing with parents?


When dealing with the parents, you need to know a few things; such as, the student’s background and strengths, and their weakness, you also need to know the child’s level that there at. It helps if the teacher knows the background of the parents. If they are economically sound, race, education level. This could all help a teacher get the point across to the parents and let them know the status of their child’s learning.
The Teacher that I am with at Lew-Port has her teacher conferences coming up, November 17th. She mentioned that I am more than willing to sit in and experience it as long as the parents are ok with it. When my cousin had her very first teacher/parent conferences she crashed and burned horribly, when my sister and I let everyone know that we are going to be teachers the first thing our cousin did was tell us all her horror stories and the parent/teacher story. I just hope that I can bring all these things to the table when I graduate.

Lew-port 10/ 13 and class

This placement is going well, i like the teacher and love the class now that she is there every time i go! The students are all super nice to me but to each other the typical high school drama. The teacher has a lot of free time in her schedule; so i get to ask her about being a teacher and the ups and downs of the job. She also coaches the girls varsity volleyball team. so she has a lot of team stuff to do, so i help out and correct papers and homework for her. The keybording class she has 4th period are her only freshman. they worked on their typing and then tested their keyboarding skills, i tested my self and little rusty. Then on the free period the special ed teacher came in with 3 students. They have learning disorders. i belive the one had ADHD and another was just at a different level, so that was neat to see. i think its so neat when i see something at learn and serve or even just around at work or the mall that i can think hmmm i wonder whats wrong with that child or what gifts they have and i can then link it back to my feild i just feel professional and important. its a cool feeling!

Learn and Serve- Lew-Port Business 9-12

October 6, 2009


This is my seccond time at this placement, so far its not working out! the teacher has not been here both times. Last week i was sent home, this week i expliained to the princpale that i have to clock some hours and was allowed to stay.The sub was very nice answered allmy questions and took me on a tour of the school. He then explained the schedule to me, there are 9 periods and on tuesday its "Lew-Port Reads" the whole school (students) are required to read during the homeroom time (7:49-8:30) the book they are reading is Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Due to this reading time the rest of the classes are cut. The teacher i am with has several different class, all her classes except for keyboarding have a "free" day and are allowed to use the computers or other they can do other class work. The keyboarding class had to work on a unit, when they were finished they were able to play around on the computers. I hope this placement works out i like this school a lot.


Last week we went on a hike in the gorge. It was so much fun the scenery was gorgeous. The leaves were changing and the colors were amazing! As we left school we were crossing 104 and just went illegally and as were crossing some crazy man was beeping at us and gave us the finger! We continued to the beginning of the gorge. We started down the creepy old stairs and that was fun! We were walking sideways on the crooked staircase. When we got to the bottom we had mini lesson. And then continued on out venture, the leaves against the colors of the trees were so beautiful. The weather was so nice for us. When we got to the actual Devil’s hole we had another mini lesson and had to grab a rock. The rock represented the stress in our lives, and then we threw it in the water. It was so helpful. After we continued a few more feet we were able to spread out and not talk and just chill. It was so relaxing. Then we hiked up the stairs and headed to the professor’s house, where we had our last mini lesson and some yummy breakfast.

I loved this class it was different; we were able to get some fresh air and get out of the classroom and get out of the normal classroom. I hope that I can get my students out of the classroom and learn out in the real world.