A couple of days ago was my second day at CCHS. As I was on my way to the high school I was thinking about everything that I needed to do when I got there. I thought about signing in, then walking to the classroom, and then receiving my student. I thought about what Mrs. Smith had told me the week before: they won't want your help, but you have to just give it to them anyway. She told me not to get discouraged if they didn't open up to me and to just keep going. I then walked in the building and signed in and went to Mrs. Smith's room where she told me to work with *Bill.
I had gotten to her class relatively early so Bill was still hanging out with friends before school started. I started to really look at her classroom and I realized that they had so much technology. The class had a computer for each student and then some. Not only did they have the technology, but it was a crucial part of her teaching. She put the assignments on the projector for everyone to see. If a student missed a day and needed the powerpoint that she had taught with earlier, she would send it to the student via email. The students have to log in to a Clarke County web server that then lead them to their school emails. It was incredible to see how much technology played into their daily lives at school. Everything was done on the computers: notes, quizzes, tests.
Bill came in when school started and he and I went to the library so we could work in a quieter environment together. Mrs. Smith told me to review grammar with him and then assist him with the quiz that he had to take after. The first part of grammar we looked at was capitalization. I let him review the grammar and then told him if he had any questions to ask me so that I could answer them before we took the quiz. He told me he didn't have any questions so we started the quiz. He knew majority of the answers without me having to help him. The ones that I had to help him with had to deal more with making a word that was already capitalized lower case. Once we finished the capitalization quiz we started to look over a powerpoint that went over commas, semicolons, and colons. This was a little trickier. We had to talk about when to use a comma versus a colon when it came to lists, and when to use a semicolon a little more. Once he told me he was ready we took the quiz. He struggled at the beginning, but he then started to recognize what he was supposed to do as he took the quiz. By the end of the quiz I didn't need to help him at all.
When comparing my first and my second time, I think I did much better at helping the student with his work. I made sure he understood everything and would guide him when he needed help on the quiz. I would also explain why he was getting something wrong. I still need to work on trying to build a relationship with the student. I think this is going to be my biggest challenge because I will be working with a different student most of the time, if not all of the time, I am there. Regardless of having the same student or having a different one, I need to work on trying to connect to the student.
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