J-Term Day 8
January 16, 2020
Day 8
Today unfortunately is my last day :( I hope that today goes well so that I don’t leave them on a bad note. By now the day is over and I worked with them on money and I was surprised at how many of them there were that didn’t know the names of the coins. I played the same game with them as yesterday. (Telling them to add up to $1.50 and having them show me different ways to do it) and I had all the classics from yesterday 6 quarters, 15 dimes, 150 pennies, 3 half dollars, 2 half dollars and 2 quarters. I had a bunch of struggles with them again today with them remembering which coin was which. I eventually came up with “the smallest coin has the smallest name” unfortunately that one wasn't super clear as many of the kids thought that I meant smallest value. And even more unfortunately I had such a hard time finding any tricks that the kids could use to remember the coins aside from the obvious one quarter is one quarter of a dollar. Unfortunately they didn’t really get fractions and their equivalent decimals so that one wasn’t helpful to many of them. When I went into this J-Term I went into it with the intent of teaching the students, which I did, but I also ended up teaching myself so much more. In all the time that I spent there I learned so much, I learned about math and the core concepts and how they are taught (Which is something that I've wondered for a long as I can remember). I learned that I really did enjoy teaching, but that this was not the right grade level for me to teach. I learned how to pick up on each individual student's learning style and how to adapt my lessons for each student. There were some that learned best with verbal lessons and others with physical materials to explore the topics for themselves. There were some students that learn best with me writing out the instructions while giving the lesson and others that learn best with writing out their own notes during the lesson. I learned the main ways that kids learn and how each and every student learns differently. I came into this with the intent of teaching them, but in all honesty, they taught me. I learned many unexpected things in this J-Term, including gaining a better understanding of how kids work in general, seeing how they established connections between things and how they learned. It was such a unique experience, I will almost undoubtedly be doing another independent J/A-Term in the future. I believe that this falls under the category of Service because I gave up a ton of time in order to plan this and to carry it out and I was doing it to help the teacher and the students. In all the time that I put into this I believe that I accomplished Learning Outcome 4 (“Show commitment to and perseverance in a fieldwork experience.”) I worked on this J-Term for such a long time before the actual J-Term and during each day and I am planning on continuing my “Education on Education” I have talked with Mr. Jacobs (Math teacher at HS) and Mr. Grisbee (Other math teacher at HS) about carrying on a similar experience with Freshmen and Sophomores. I am excited to see where I take this newfound knowledge in the future.
Day 8
Today unfortunately is my last day :( I hope that today goes well so that I don’t leave them on a bad note. By now the day is over and I worked with them on money and I was surprised at how many of them there were that didn’t know the names of the coins. I played the same game with them as yesterday. (Telling them to add up to $1.50 and having them show me different ways to do it) and I had all the classics from yesterday 6 quarters, 15 dimes, 150 pennies, 3 half dollars, 2 half dollars and 2 quarters. I had a bunch of struggles with them again today with them remembering which coin was which. I eventually came up with “the smallest coin has the smallest name” unfortunately that one wasn't super clear as many of the kids thought that I meant smallest value. And even more unfortunately I had such a hard time finding any tricks that the kids could use to remember the coins aside from the obvious one quarter is one quarter of a dollar. Unfortunately they didn’t really get fractions and their equivalent decimals so that one wasn’t helpful to many of them. When I went into this J-Term I went into it with the intent of teaching the students, which I did, but I also ended up teaching myself so much more. In all the time that I spent there I learned so much, I learned about math and the core concepts and how they are taught (Which is something that I've wondered for a long as I can remember). I learned that I really did enjoy teaching, but that this was not the right grade level for me to teach. I learned how to pick up on each individual student's learning style and how to adapt my lessons for each student. There were some that learned best with verbal lessons and others with physical materials to explore the topics for themselves. There were some students that learn best with me writing out the instructions while giving the lesson and others that learn best with writing out their own notes during the lesson. I learned the main ways that kids learn and how each and every student learns differently. I came into this with the intent of teaching them, but in all honesty, they taught me. I learned many unexpected things in this J-Term, including gaining a better understanding of how kids work in general, seeing how they established connections between things and how they learned. It was such a unique experience, I will almost undoubtedly be doing another independent J/A-Term in the future. I believe that this falls under the category of Service because I gave up a ton of time in order to plan this and to carry it out and I was doing it to help the teacher and the students. In all the time that I put into this I believe that I accomplished Learning Outcome 4 (“Show commitment to and perseverance in a fieldwork experience.”) I worked on this J-Term for such a long time before the actual J-Term and during each day and I am planning on continuing my “Education on Education” I have talked with Mr. Jacobs (Math teacher at HS) and Mr. Grisbee (Other math teacher at HS) about carrying on a similar experience with Freshmen and Sophomores. I am excited to see where I take this newfound knowledge in the future.
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