Literal (Know)
Day 1- August 23, 2012 (5 hours)
Mentor: Laura Murillo
School: Rivera Middle School
Contact Number: (562) 801-5088
- Signed students into Mrs. Murillo's gradebook
- Collected homework from students, as well as passed out worksheets
- Observed Mrs. Murillo's lecture on integer review
- Repeated this process for 5 different classes
Mentor: Laura Murillo
School: Rivera Middle School
Contact Number: (562) 801-5088
- Organized books
- Collected homework and passed out new assignments, including a quiz
- Helped grade homework and quiz
- Put grades from the homework and quiz into the gradebook
- Observed Mrs. Murillo explaining all of the answers on the quiz
- Repeated this process for 5 different classes
Day 3- August 27, 2012 (5 hours)
Mentor: Laura Murillo
School: Rivera Middle School
Contact Number: (562) 801-5088
- Graded homework from over the weekend
- Put more grades into the gradebook
- Observed Mrs. Murillo giving a warm-up, as well as helping the students understand the homework
- Repeated this process for 5 different classes
- Helped a couple students understand their homework during lunch
Literal (Need to Know)
- How does the teacher have time to help out every single student should they ask for it?
- Which way of teaching ensures complete attention from the student?
- Why does the teacher insist on teaching the very basic form of a problem, instead of the actual problem?
Interpretive
I think the most important thing I gained from this experience was being able to help out a student. After watching Mrs. Murillo teach, I knew how to explain problems to a student. I do not mean that I learned the content from Mrs. Murillo, I mean that I learned how to make it seem simple for the student to understand.
Applied
By doing these 10 hours of job-shadowing, I realized that teaching Algebra was something that I am really interested in. I've always enjoyed math; it has been, and still is, my favorite subject. I was planing to do something math-related for my senior project. The reason I chose this subject was because the classroom feels like the right environment for me. Grading papers and helping students out made me feel successful, so that is why I am pursuing this topic.
