Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Component

Literal

1. Here is the link to my Mentorship Log. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10txqEgj_VLP4FhWsBA9_1pDsH44Y0cIyv7NiZSmcfZI/edit#gid=0

2. My mentors name is Lourdes Garay; her contact information is (909) 518-8542. She mentored me at San Jose School in Pomona, Ca.   

3.  Some of the questions that I had were:

·         How long does it usually take you to create a lesson plan and what tools do you use to help you?

-          I asked this because this is where all the hard work and planning goes into therefore I wanted to know what she does to create one.

·         What do you do to make learning more exciting in order to get the students to interact with you?

-          I found this extremely important because a teacher could put hours and hours of hard work into a lesson plan, but not always get the message across.

·         What do you do after you grade the students test and more than half got a low percentage?

-          After grading some tests this question came to me because it is bound to happen that many students get a low percentage on their tests due to outside life, studying for DWA’S or simply not understanding it, what happens then?

Interpretive

4. The most important thing I gained from this experience is that children can be very unpredictable especially when trying to teach 34 different students that one student's  mind works completely different from everyone else’s. This to me was important because you can’t always teach one way or the other there needs to be an in between because not all the students learn the same some are visual learners and other could simply just hear it and understands it.

Applied

5. My senior project topic is going to be about teaching and being able to get your point across by knowing your audience and expecting unforeseen events. From learning and seeing my mentor in action I was able to see that more than always not everything went according to her lesson plan not because she is a bad teacher, but because sometimes not all the students understands the lesson or it’s a Monday and students just want to go to bed or worst of all students from another class need to stay in her class because the substitute didn’t end up coming not to mention they are younger students. After shadowing my mentor I got some insight on what a wonderful teacher goes through in order to get students interested in learning that’s why I choose this topic.