Internship Teaching #1

Although this is my first blog post, I have a lot to talk about my time here at Bruceton school. The year started off with 6 teachers leaving the school and new staff members reporting to the building. To add to this, the school also had a change in the daily schedule and students now spend one hour extra in the school than last year. Instead of being dismissed at 2:30, the students now are dismissed at 3:30. With that being said, each period was extended by 7 minutes. This has made it nice to work with the students in Science class because it gives extra time to do experiments. In relation to this, I have now figured out my schedule since I am doing a multi-study placement at the same time. During the morning hours until lunch time, I am working with the one section of 7th grade and two sections of 8th grade in the morning for Math class. Then after lunch, I am working with 2 sections of 6th grade, and a section of 8th grade for Science. In doing so, I do get to see the same 8th graders in the afternoon as I did in the morning. I've noticed that the students do not really mind this, rather they seem to like it. I like it as well because I begin to see student tendencies. WhatI mean by this is that some students work harder in Math and participate more in Math than they do in Science. (Or vice-versa) This has opened my eyes to a lot of things and ultimately I think this is where I will begin to do some of my research for the semester.