Joslyn Perez
Feb.12, 2009
Period 6

Reflection# 3

Internship was pretty rough today. The students seem to be too excited, and not wanting to quiet down when my team teacher and I ask them too. I had trouble with two students that didn’t want to do any of the work. It was difficult to get their attention, and that leaded to not having today’s lesson completed. I felt very unsuccessful about it, and I know that I’m going to need to do something to change that. I need to find a way to get them more settled, quiet down, and complete the work that I’m giving them. After the session, I had a quick talk with my master teacher about it. She gave me some good advice and ideas for next class, and the rest of the classes. What I plan to do is have them silent, when it comes to the writing time that they’re doing, and to talk while they’re doing their progress tracking sheets. We’ll see how it goes for next class. This is a new strategy that will help them get more of their writing done, that way we can catch up and be on top of things and the work more. Because if I just let them talk all the time during class, they won’t get much work done, and that means that we will always be behind. That isn’t good because there isn’t much time to waste; each day is limited on what needs to be done, because we don’t have much SAS sessions left to actually create these scrapbooks. My goal is to get the writing portion done already so that way we can begin creating the actual books. I still need students to bring in enough pictures, re-edit and re-write, draw, cut, color, and have all the right materials they need to make the scrapbooks. Having them more silent, will improve the work they get done in class for the day. I really don’t like how today went, one of my students isn’t even interested in any of the work. She told me that it was boring and that she didn’t like the whole project idea at all. I tried many times to explain to her why it’s important to do projects like this, and what she will gain as a student from creating the scrapbook. I tried many times to get her to write something and do something, and she refused. I got nothing out of her, and I know that I am going to have to after bring it to Rameka’s (program director), attention. I don’t understand why she doesn’t want to do anything, I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with it, and I’m sure that it’s not the way she acts in school. A lot of the other students told me that she was like that all the time with a lot of different teachers, and that it’s just the way she was, talking to her wouldn’t change anything. This worries me, it’s just something I don’t like, and I will talk to her about it next class and see how she feels about it.