North Marion High School Week 2

My second week in my high school placement has been even better than my first. I have had the opportunity to begin teaching applied geometry. At first I was a little unsure of the lessons I created and my time management skills. After the first day I had to adjust a few things in order to have my lessons flow from day to day, but it all worked out especially because I didn't realize how much review and practice was needed. I believe my lessons went well, it is just hard to adjust to having half the class absent one day and try to catch them up the next. I believe that will be an ongoing challenge at this placement for me. My lessons consisted of things like lecture, guided notes, and review games. The students seemed to really enjoy the Jeopardy review game we played the day before the quiz. They all really worked hard and remained engaged with it, they even requested to play again the next day! For my future lessons, I want to take advantage of some of the resources offered at North Marion. Next week I plan on using Algebra'sCool. It has an interactive video with guided notes, guided practice, and independent practice. I am looking forward to seeing how the students will respond to learning math in a very non traditional way. Algebra'sCool, is one of many resources I can use at my placement. I am thankful there are such interesting things to do, but it is hard to take advantage of them, when I am still learning what many of them are.

This school has done a really nice job with making the students from WVU feel very welcome. I can't say enough how nice almost everyone has been and how they want us to feel like a true Husky! They have even asked the interns to be a part of the Thuse today, by having us lie on the gym floor and be a part of the spelling of HUSKIES with human bodies, all being faculty. I am becoming much more comfortable with this placement and am really taking a liking to working with high school students.