Second week of school, less time off from storms and more learning. I'm starting to get into the thick of the internship, meaning I'm starting to plan and create lessons to teach. Unlike other internships I have to find places and times to teach. One opportunity is during the month of march where students in the 7th grade have a month of classes based on making products or producing something taught by individuals from certain fields. The school is going to allow me to teach a computer programming class during that month. I will be using scratch.mit.edu to teach students.
Other opportunity I have is to teach are a lunch club that is also playing with scratch, but haven't started the programming aspect of it and need help learning it. There is also a chance to work with special education students who want to learn programming before they go to high school so they will be in a good position when they sign up for a new class at the high school.
Classes are going well. I've started to interact with the students a bit more. I answer questions and give advice on their class work. I got to do some discipline time with some students who didn't want to do the class work or missed the point of the assignment. That was a good learning experience in its self. It takes a lot of patience and finding out what motives a student can be difficult but I managed to help the best I could. The thing that stuck out the most of this week was the different learning styles of students and how it affects what they do in class. You have to plan accordingly to the individualized students and what works best for them. I know this from theory but its amazing to see it in practice.
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