1. What is your full name?
Yanick Ceus
2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?
Haiti Port’-Auprince
3. Why did you choose your professional field?
I like to work with the children because I like to see them grow, also to provide a great part of the kids’ education growth.
4. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
When I first came, I work with ESL child (ESL child means to be a personal tutor to children), realize the progress the kid did at the end of the year. By doing that job, it motivate me to be a teacher.
5. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular school?
I choose this job because after I finish being an ESL tutor, I notice that there was an open house. I went and fill out the application offered for the position. I also took the job because it is near my home and is closer to travel. Not much traffic and delays.
6. How long have you worked here?
I’ve work here 11 years. 5 or 6 years before, I was teaching in French.
7. What is your job title?
My job title here is to teach Pre kindergarteners (Pre K). Also I have the capacity to teach from Pre K to 6 graders.
8. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Some of the challenges I have faced are mostly on children who are in low and learning level, to make them work in equal manner having different level.
9. What is the best part of your job?
At the end of the year, the kid’s progress made me really feel really happy because it shows that the kids have learned, it made me very impress socially, emotionally and educationally.
10. What is something you would like to change about your job?
If I could change something in my work, I will probably put some of the kids that are in the same level but with better behavior because there is lees stress and the could learn a lot of new things in a period of time. Also, they are brighter.
11. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
I did work on a different place before for a little while. I work as a Parent Professional, Assistant teacher on District 22, 17, 16 (Brooklyn). After, I got my bachelor and masters; I began to work as a Substitute teacher in PS 52 and PS 162 (PS= Public School).
12. What do you see as your future with this school?
I see my future maybe as an ascended teacher, to teach first grade until I retire. However, I prefer to work with the lower grades Pre K and Pre K 2.
13. How has having an intern helped your students?
Having an intern has made a great impact on my class because a second hand is always a great thing. My intern is a very helpful person, specially working in small groups, he has very good experience with the children and very dedicated to care and safety, he is a major influence of motivation to the kids to stay focus and to complete and stay on task.
14. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?
The advises that I will give to teenage interns that are preparing for college are:
• Think positive and get a lot of motivation
• Don’t give up and keep trying hard
• Be focus and stay on task to succeed
• Try your best to do good work
• Don’t listen to other people bad talk; stay on your track and also out of trouble
15. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world?
Some advice that I will give to interns preparing to work in the outside world are:
• Be ready to be flexible
• Be ready to be cooperative with peers
• Avoid conflict
• People have different personality, don’t take any thing personal, try to solve the problem with a smooth conversation not violence
• Take your job seriously
Friday, May 21, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Internship Final Reflection - Advertisement
During the end of my internship days, I have been doing a lot work, in the classroom and out the class room helping my mentor organize the children book for different grades. I am surely positive that I achieve my goals by teaching the kids understand many of the topics so they can pass their state exams. The grade average that the school has on passing the state exams has dramatically increased because the children are getting to understand more the classes and participating more class work. On my work, I’ve learned many things that will help me on my future, like to communicate with adults and try to keep an adequate conversation, help the kids increase their knowledge space, explain the subjects with easier and understandable words so the students can understand it better, while on conversation I use many strong words so the people can find the conversation more challenging and interesting.
I have grown to be a responsible and a great adult because I am always thinking that to work, the money is going to come to you when is not right, you have to work for it and really hard, even sweat while working to show you are working hard. Some highlights of my internship experiences are to communicate with the students and be more mature every day so the students can know that they are been offered help and a lot of care is dedicated towards them, also the students can have a view of you as a big motivation for them so they can be a successful student in the future. There was one thing that I have learned on the professional world, that is to do your best and to keep focusing on the task until it is fulfill the task because then you will have to do every thing else in a rush and you will be losing a lot of time doing one thing, when another task is waiting for you with out rest.
Most of the internship year, I didn't have any problem with the working ambience, the attitude of my co-worker and mentor, but there was only one challenge that I face every day, to get the kindergarteners attention when I was going to say something. At the beginning of the working days, the children will be in a riot and you could not even hear your self, however, when the days pass, slowly the children will began to get confidence toward you and to prove it, they will ask you question and for help. That challenge I've overcome it in a great way because as a result of that challenge, I got to memorize most of the kid’s names.
If in any occasion I were to start internship next week, one thing I would do differently is not to show any bit of nervous and be a great confident person so people could have confidence on me. Also I will probably, try to get the kids to have fun so they could listen to me and they could give me their attention. If another student will be offered the internship I have, the best advise that I will give him is to be your self when you are with the kids because they are really intelligent and they will even make plans to test your brain to demonstrate that you are an adult so they could show you respect during the working session. Also to try and have a lot of fun with the kindergarteners as you can because they like to play a lot. The mayor thing that i will miss about my internship is working with the kids and giving the best that i can teach to the 3rd graders because that was one of my goals, to make the all the kindergarteners and the 3rd graders know that when they are In the path of education It will not be seem really easy but slowly with a lot of effort toward your studying and reading a lot of books will be worth a lot of easy step that could take you to a much easier road to success, but you have to keep studying and trying hard to keep your score at a hill top level.
I have grown to be a responsible and a great adult because I am always thinking that to work, the money is going to come to you when is not right, you have to work for it and really hard, even sweat while working to show you are working hard. Some highlights of my internship experiences are to communicate with the students and be more mature every day so the students can know that they are been offered help and a lot of care is dedicated towards them, also the students can have a view of you as a big motivation for them so they can be a successful student in the future. There was one thing that I have learned on the professional world, that is to do your best and to keep focusing on the task until it is fulfill the task because then you will have to do every thing else in a rush and you will be losing a lot of time doing one thing, when another task is waiting for you with out rest.
Most of the internship year, I didn't have any problem with the working ambience, the attitude of my co-worker and mentor, but there was only one challenge that I face every day, to get the kindergarteners attention when I was going to say something. At the beginning of the working days, the children will be in a riot and you could not even hear your self, however, when the days pass, slowly the children will began to get confidence toward you and to prove it, they will ask you question and for help. That challenge I've overcome it in a great way because as a result of that challenge, I got to memorize most of the kid’s names.
If in any occasion I were to start internship next week, one thing I would do differently is not to show any bit of nervous and be a great confident person so people could have confidence on me. Also I will probably, try to get the kids to have fun so they could listen to me and they could give me their attention. If another student will be offered the internship I have, the best advise that I will give him is to be your self when you are with the kids because they are really intelligent and they will even make plans to test your brain to demonstrate that you are an adult so they could show you respect during the working session. Also to try and have a lot of fun with the kindergarteners as you can because they like to play a lot. The mayor thing that i will miss about my internship is working with the kids and giving the best that i can teach to the 3rd graders because that was one of my goals, to make the all the kindergarteners and the 3rd graders know that when they are In the path of education It will not be seem really easy but slowly with a lot of effort toward your studying and reading a lot of books will be worth a lot of easy step that could take you to a much easier road to success, but you have to keep studying and trying hard to keep your score at a hill top level.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Internship Vocabulary (Part 2)
Bewildered
Meaning: Bewildered means to be confused, or to disorientate because of something.
Context: Ms. Paday says, “I am very bewildered today, I taught all of you study for the state test this week, I m very disappointed of you who didn’t pass”
Chastise
Meaning: Chastise means to punish someone for doing something wrong or cheating.
Context: The teachers always says to the students, “If you cheat on any test, you will be chastise and get a F, for failure and you will also feel a pang of guiltiness”
Candid
Meaning: Candid means to be really sincere and also to be honest.
Context: The principal, Ms. Hambright, said to the students, “To be candid, I want the best of behavior you all can give to the advisors on the trip to Jefferson High School"
Talkative
Meaning: Talkative means a person who likes to talk a lot or be chatty.
Context: "All of the students are very talkative when the teacher is not making them work, however, when the students are in a class discussion, the chattiness turns to a silently class"
Distinctive
Meaning: Distinctive means a thing that distinguishes something from anything else, also it could mean a quality that makes a person different to another.
Context: "Some students have distinctive qualities, some like to work really hard, some like to be lazy and some students just do nothing all day"
Meaning: Bewildered means to be confused, or to disorientate because of something.
Context: Ms. Paday says, “I am very bewildered today, I taught all of you study for the state test this week, I m very disappointed of you who didn’t pass”
Chastise
Meaning: Chastise means to punish someone for doing something wrong or cheating.
Context: The teachers always says to the students, “If you cheat on any test, you will be chastise and get a F, for failure and you will also feel a pang of guiltiness”
Candid
Meaning: Candid means to be really sincere and also to be honest.
Context: The principal, Ms. Hambright, said to the students, “To be candid, I want the best of behavior you all can give to the advisors on the trip to Jefferson High School"
Talkative
Meaning: Talkative means a person who likes to talk a lot or be chatty.
Context: "All of the students are very talkative when the teacher is not making them work, however, when the students are in a class discussion, the chattiness turns to a silently class"
Distinctive
Meaning: Distinctive means a thing that distinguishes something from anything else, also it could mean a quality that makes a person different to another.
Context: "Some students have distinctive qualities, some like to work really hard, some like to be lazy and some students just do nothing all day"
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Internship Vocabulary
Advisor - Asesor
Definition: is a person who offers other people helpful advice.
Own Language: es una persona que da consejos en particular.
Sentence: “An advisor, help the student get ideas to get scholarship and financial aid”
Appropriate - Apropiado
Definition: is when something suitable for a particular person or place or condition.
Own Language: es cuando algo es adecuado para observar o realizar.
Sentence: “When people are discussing a topic, it is appropriate to raise their hand to ask several questions”
Attitude ¬- Actitud
Definition: is the way a person behaves with other people showing feeling like aggression, depression, etc.
Own Language: es el comportamiento de una persona con otra mostrando ciertas emociones.
Sentence: "When a scholar comes to visit a foreign school and has to talk with a person of a higher rank, he has to show a happy and grateful attitude for being there"
Colleague - Colega
Definition: a person who is a partner of one's class, profession, or activity.
Own Language: es la persona, pareja, o compañero con la cual trabajas en clases, atividades, o profesión.
Sentence: "When you are in college, your colleague helps you a lot if you are missing any notes from a class"
Cover letter - Letra de cubierta
Definition: is a business letter written to a talk more about you self and to express your interest in and qualifications for a position.
Own Language: es una carta donde describes tus posiciones y hablas mas de tu personalidad en la cual quieres tratar para buscar un empleo.
Sentence: "MacDonald’s are looking for employer; please send resume and cover letter for full Information"
Co-worker - Compañero de trabajo
Definition: is a colleague; is a person that you work with.
Own Language: un compañero con la cual trabajas.
Sentence: "Mr. Michael co-worker is Mr. Jon, they help each other when making arrangements for trips and passages"
Criticism ¬- Criticas
Definition: when a person doesn’t approve or judge someone or something that has been expressed or passed.
Own Language: es cuando la/las personas no quieren aprobar o están juzgando un cierto o expresado en juicio.
Sentence: "There were many criticisms when the Governor Patterson wanted to take away student's metro cards, people said it was unfair"
Discrimination - Discriminación
Definition: is when a person receives an unfair treatment of another person or group.
Own Language: es cuando una persona recibe una tratamiento de cierto rango brutal de otros grupo o personas.
Sentence: "Many African-American received a lot of discrimination when they were working on farm because of disobedience and force of fighting"
Duty - Deber
Definition: is a thing that a person is obligated to do an assigned, task, or occupation.
Own Language: es cuando una persona a sido mandado/da a realizar deberes de trabajo, ocupación o simple hogareños.
Sentence: "An officer duty is to serve, and protect justice from the bad people"
Employee - Empleado
Definition: is a worker who has been hired to a job and provides labor to a company or another person.
Own Language: es una persona que ha sido alquilado para trabajar para una compañía o otra persona.
Sentence: "When you are hired and become an employee, try to get the attention of many co-workers so they can trust you and count on you for many great things"
Employer - Patron
Definition: is a person that hires the employee to work and make contracts to pay the employees.
Own Language: es una persona de alto nivel que tiene la capacidad de alquilar un empleado para hacer mas ganancias para sus provechos.
Sentence: "Sometimes when an employer is going to hired employees, he just asks for their resume to know their academic standard and what can they do at a respective working field"
Evaluate - Evaluar
Definition: is to find the significance of someone or something by testing it in a variety of exams.
Own Language: es hallar un significado comun en una persona o cosa haciendo una variedad de examenes.
Sentence: "International High Schools, often evaluate the students that come from different countries to know what academic level are they on"
Evaluation - Evaluación
Definition: is to do an assessment of the value of something or someone.
Own Language: es realizar un examen para saber o tomar en cuenta el valor de algo o alguien.
Sentence: "The SAT evaluation is done to know if students are prepare to enter college"
Flexible - Flexible
Definition: is when an attribute of various types of systems or fields can be adapted.
Own Language: es cuando las personas adaptan cusos de systemas or campos de conocimientos e aprendizajes.
Sentence: "When a person is learning the carrier of doctoral, the flexible a person gets involved in many classes, the more knowledge that person gets in the doctoral field"
Harassment - Acoso
Definition: is when a person is being persistent and attacks or criticizes a person making that person felt unsecured and tormented.
Own Language: es cuando una persona trata a su projimo en una forma violenta y/o comienza a criticar a la persona haciendo la persona sentir incomoda/do o asustada/do.
Sentence: "In the streets, there are some boys that always whistle to beautiful girls that walk by. Then the boys just follow her and start to talk to the girl in an evasive way making the girls feel scared and harassed"
"Some police most of the time arrest men for sexual harassment"
Initiative - Iniciativa
Definition: is the first step of a series of actions that is going to be done.
Own Language: es el primer movimiento o acción que va a ser realizado.
Sentence: "When a student is beginning to go to college, the initiative is to get tutors and teachers after class on schedule for a big hand"
Novice - Principiante
Definition: is a person who is new in a field or activities.
Own Language: es una persona que esta comensando un nuevo camino o en una nueva actividad.
Sentence: "When you graduate from elementary to high school, you are being a novice because you are entering a new path of education"
Proactive - Dinámico
Definition: is when a person is acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.
Own Language: es cuando un persona esta por pasar un acuerdo para hacer frente a un cambio esperado o dificultad.
Sentence: "Services should become more proactive in their approach to service provision"
Qualifications - Calificaciones
Definition: is trying to get success in satisfying a requirement; it could also mean an ability or attribute that gives a person a chance of qualifying.
Own Language: es cuande alguien tiene un chance de ser calificado en un requisito necesario.
Sentence: "There are many seniors that are applying for Scholarship but maybe half will get qualified"
"In order to get qualifications you need to pass all the regents with at least 65 and up"
Recommendation - Recomendación
Definition: is when a person show that he/she is worthy or desirable of working in a good way that is also influences to others.
Own Language: es cuando una persona es favorable de sacar provecho en un empleo dejando influencia con otras personas que querrán tener sabiduría.
Sentences: "The girl personality is already a recommendation for the job because she is well prepared"
References - Referencia
Definition: it means to indicate something else.
Own Language: significa la indicacion de otra cosa en uso.
Sentences: "When you are going to buy a car, ask for references about it to know what you are driveng"
Reliable - Confiable
Definition: is when someone or something is faithful, worthy of reliance or trust.
Own Lnguage: es cuando una persona es buena gente, digno de confianza o de confianza puede ser contado para ser confiado.
Sentence: "The best person that could be reliable to you are your best friends and/or your parents"
Salary - Sueldo
Definition: is an adequate amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis.
Own Language: es una cantidad de dinero que se cede a los trabajadores usualmente semanal, mensual, o anual.
Sentence: "When you are working in the NAVY, you mostly get a salary of approximately $30000"
Task - Tarea
Definition: is a specific piece of work required to be done as part of one’s duties.
Own Language: es una tarea especifica que se debe de realizar como parte de deberes de una persona.
Sentence: "On the regents preparation, teachers always Sais to pay close attention to the task because if you don't, you will not know what to do"
Wages - Salarios
Definition: it is the wealth people get from working over a period of time, usually financial.
Own Language: son las ganancias de un empleado por trabajar durante un periodo do tiempo, la paga usualmente es financial.
Sentence: "Every week, most people get their wages from working hard on their current positions"
Definition: is a person who offers other people helpful advice.
Own Language: es una persona que da consejos en particular.
Sentence: “An advisor, help the student get ideas to get scholarship and financial aid”
Appropriate - Apropiado
Definition: is when something suitable for a particular person or place or condition.
Own Language: es cuando algo es adecuado para observar o realizar.
Sentence: “When people are discussing a topic, it is appropriate to raise their hand to ask several questions”
Attitude ¬- Actitud
Definition: is the way a person behaves with other people showing feeling like aggression, depression, etc.
Own Language: es el comportamiento de una persona con otra mostrando ciertas emociones.
Sentence: "When a scholar comes to visit a foreign school and has to talk with a person of a higher rank, he has to show a happy and grateful attitude for being there"
Colleague - Colega
Definition: a person who is a partner of one's class, profession, or activity.
Own Language: es la persona, pareja, o compañero con la cual trabajas en clases, atividades, o profesión.
Sentence: "When you are in college, your colleague helps you a lot if you are missing any notes from a class"
Cover letter - Letra de cubierta
Definition: is a business letter written to a talk more about you self and to express your interest in and qualifications for a position.
Own Language: es una carta donde describes tus posiciones y hablas mas de tu personalidad en la cual quieres tratar para buscar un empleo.
Sentence: "MacDonald’s are looking for employer; please send resume and cover letter for full Information"
Co-worker - Compañero de trabajo
Definition: is a colleague; is a person that you work with.
Own Language: un compañero con la cual trabajas.
Sentence: "Mr. Michael co-worker is Mr. Jon, they help each other when making arrangements for trips and passages"
Criticism ¬- Criticas
Definition: when a person doesn’t approve or judge someone or something that has been expressed or passed.
Own Language: es cuando la/las personas no quieren aprobar o están juzgando un cierto o expresado en juicio.
Sentence: "There were many criticisms when the Governor Patterson wanted to take away student's metro cards, people said it was unfair"
Discrimination - Discriminación
Definition: is when a person receives an unfair treatment of another person or group.
Own Language: es cuando una persona recibe una tratamiento de cierto rango brutal de otros grupo o personas.
Sentence: "Many African-American received a lot of discrimination when they were working on farm because of disobedience and force of fighting"
Duty - Deber
Definition: is a thing that a person is obligated to do an assigned, task, or occupation.
Own Language: es cuando una persona a sido mandado/da a realizar deberes de trabajo, ocupación o simple hogareños.
Sentence: "An officer duty is to serve, and protect justice from the bad people"
Employee - Empleado
Definition: is a worker who has been hired to a job and provides labor to a company or another person.
Own Language: es una persona que ha sido alquilado para trabajar para una compañía o otra persona.
Sentence: "When you are hired and become an employee, try to get the attention of many co-workers so they can trust you and count on you for many great things"
Employer - Patron
Definition: is a person that hires the employee to work and make contracts to pay the employees.
Own Language: es una persona de alto nivel que tiene la capacidad de alquilar un empleado para hacer mas ganancias para sus provechos.
Sentence: "Sometimes when an employer is going to hired employees, he just asks for their resume to know their academic standard and what can they do at a respective working field"
Evaluate - Evaluar
Definition: is to find the significance of someone or something by testing it in a variety of exams.
Own Language: es hallar un significado comun en una persona o cosa haciendo una variedad de examenes.
Sentence: "International High Schools, often evaluate the students that come from different countries to know what academic level are they on"
Evaluation - Evaluación
Definition: is to do an assessment of the value of something or someone.
Own Language: es realizar un examen para saber o tomar en cuenta el valor de algo o alguien.
Sentence: "The SAT evaluation is done to know if students are prepare to enter college"
Flexible - Flexible
Definition: is when an attribute of various types of systems or fields can be adapted.
Own Language: es cuando las personas adaptan cusos de systemas or campos de conocimientos e aprendizajes.
Sentence: "When a person is learning the carrier of doctoral, the flexible a person gets involved in many classes, the more knowledge that person gets in the doctoral field"
Harassment - Acoso
Definition: is when a person is being persistent and attacks or criticizes a person making that person felt unsecured and tormented.
Own Language: es cuando una persona trata a su projimo en una forma violenta y/o comienza a criticar a la persona haciendo la persona sentir incomoda/do o asustada/do.
Sentence: "In the streets, there are some boys that always whistle to beautiful girls that walk by. Then the boys just follow her and start to talk to the girl in an evasive way making the girls feel scared and harassed"
"Some police most of the time arrest men for sexual harassment"
Initiative - Iniciativa
Definition: is the first step of a series of actions that is going to be done.
Own Language: es el primer movimiento o acción que va a ser realizado.
Sentence: "When a student is beginning to go to college, the initiative is to get tutors and teachers after class on schedule for a big hand"
Novice - Principiante
Definition: is a person who is new in a field or activities.
Own Language: es una persona que esta comensando un nuevo camino o en una nueva actividad.
Sentence: "When you graduate from elementary to high school, you are being a novice because you are entering a new path of education"
Proactive - Dinámico
Definition: is when a person is acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.
Own Language: es cuando un persona esta por pasar un acuerdo para hacer frente a un cambio esperado o dificultad.
Sentence: "Services should become more proactive in their approach to service provision"
Qualifications - Calificaciones
Definition: is trying to get success in satisfying a requirement; it could also mean an ability or attribute that gives a person a chance of qualifying.
Own Language: es cuande alguien tiene un chance de ser calificado en un requisito necesario.
Sentence: "There are many seniors that are applying for Scholarship but maybe half will get qualified"
"In order to get qualifications you need to pass all the regents with at least 65 and up"
Recommendation - Recomendación
Definition: is when a person show that he/she is worthy or desirable of working in a good way that is also influences to others.
Own Language: es cuando una persona es favorable de sacar provecho en un empleo dejando influencia con otras personas que querrán tener sabiduría.
Sentences: "The girl personality is already a recommendation for the job because she is well prepared"
References - Referencia
Definition: it means to indicate something else.
Own Language: significa la indicacion de otra cosa en uso.
Sentences: "When you are going to buy a car, ask for references about it to know what you are driveng"
Reliable - Confiable
Definition: is when someone or something is faithful, worthy of reliance or trust.
Own Lnguage: es cuando una persona es buena gente, digno de confianza o de confianza puede ser contado para ser confiado.
Sentence: "The best person that could be reliable to you are your best friends and/or your parents"
Salary - Sueldo
Definition: is an adequate amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis.
Own Language: es una cantidad de dinero que se cede a los trabajadores usualmente semanal, mensual, o anual.
Sentence: "When you are working in the NAVY, you mostly get a salary of approximately $30000"
Task - Tarea
Definition: is a specific piece of work required to be done as part of one’s duties.
Own Language: es una tarea especifica que se debe de realizar como parte de deberes de una persona.
Sentence: "On the regents preparation, teachers always Sais to pay close attention to the task because if you don't, you will not know what to do"
Wages - Salarios
Definition: it is the wealth people get from working over a period of time, usually financial.
Own Language: son las ganancias de un empleado por trabajar durante un periodo do tiempo, la paga usualmente es financial.
Sentence: "Every week, most people get their wages from working hard on their current positions"
Mid point Reflection
Working at a school, having the opportunity to help the teacher with the children is a great way to practice your communication skills because there is some career that involved a lot of talking like being a lawyer or a business manager, etc, all of these careers involves a lot of talking and with some great manners. Internship for my expectation has been a little different that I had expected, because some of the kindergarteners behave like the 3rd graders and some 3rd graders behave like if they are in a high school. International High School is kind of similar because most of the students behave really good, stay focus on the task, work as if it was a challenge to overcome. However, in the Change For Kids site, the children are very grateful for being in school and mostly appreciate the help the teachers help towards the student, every minute of dedication on the education by the teachers is a great honor for the teachers. On my internship I have learned new skills like increasing my typing skills a lot more and I could type a little without looking at the keyboard, another skill I learned is to talk more using strong words and to make my listening of other strong words better, that way I could understand the words better.
The relationship that I have with my mentor and co-worker is getting stronger because as I gain their confidence and faith, my mentor and co-worker can trust me and count on me for any work that I can help on. When I interact with adults, I mostly am calm, talk in a smooth way and try to have a great discussion. While talking on my internship, I also gain more strength on my English and it is growing little by little. While I am on an assignment, I will try to get the job done that way my mentor can see that I am a very attentive student, worker or person. When I am in the 3rd graders class, I will try to explain what the students should do kind of like the teacher job and I will also try to find a different and simple way of explanation so the students could understand what the subject is about in a much better way. (It requires a lot of thinking to find a different strategy of a way of explaining from the teacher idea)
A challenge that I had on my internship site is trying to get the kindergarteners attention at first, after a while the kids had begin to show appropriate behavior around adults and teachers. Also the kids are kind of changing their behavior with baby steps but are giving their best to change from wild to calm students that behave like teenagers. On my internship site I’ve try to organized a mental schedule for me to get my hours and class work done on time. On my way going to my site takes like approximately 1 hour and 10 to 20 minutes of ride, in that time I get time to start short homework like math or sometimes earth and science work, sometimes I get chance to finish incomplete work. While my mentor goes to meetings and my partner and I will be just completing any homework we’ve have been assigned just not to waste time. Some goals that I will like to accomplish are to do more hours that I supposed to do for me not to do any over the summer. I will like to enjoy my summer and also attend to summer school, another goal that I have Is to make sure the students of the 3rd grade, understand most of the subjects that is required on the regents or state exams. Something I leaned about NYC as a result of being out is that working outside of school is really fun because is like working to help your self and others, also to get experience on working techniques and planning what to do next.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Four Week Into Internship
The site where I work is called “Change for Kids”; my position held on the job is Literacy Tutor for kindergartners and teacher assistant for 3rd grade. The company provides excellent education for children and also it help teachers in their communication and also in their behavior towards kids. It helps children to advance grades in a variety of techniques to get high grades on the different activities done in class. The task I do daily are to greet people as I enter the building, sign in the office and get a pass, and go to my mentor office and get refresh with the activities I am going to do with the class. My mentor is a very glad person, she enjoys working with children, she is also a very focus person example: when she has to do a meeting with the parents she get the job done and up to the next one, and she is a fun person to work with because when she wants to be humorous she makes people laugh a lot. Some memorable moments I have from my very first weeks are when the kindergartners surround me and present themselves with no fear for stranger, the kids even taught me the beautiful work they were doing to show kindness. I really enjoy working with the children and assisting the teacher in their needs, however, for me it is valuable experience for the future.
The name of the neighborhood that my site is Bedford Stuyvesant, I take me approximately 1hour and 30 minutes to get to my internship, so I leave from school at 11:35am to 11:40am everyday. I arrive everyday to my home approximately 5pm to 5:30pm. I work for 3 to 4 hours most of the time. The person who sings my cards every time I go to my internship is Ms. Ben Aaman or if she is absent, the assistant principal sings the paper.
The name of the neighborhood that my site is Bedford Stuyvesant, I take me approximately 1hour and 30 minutes to get to my internship, so I leave from school at 11:35am to 11:40am everyday. I arrive everyday to my home approximately 5pm to 5:30pm. I work for 3 to 4 hours most of the time. The person who sings my cards every time I go to my internship is Ms. Ben Aaman or if she is absent, the assistant principal sings the paper.
Monday, March 15, 2010
First Two Weeks (Feb. 22 - March 4)
My first thoughts that I had when I arrived at my internship is to communicate and to work with people were I could help and share my knowledge with other people.
Also I could be to assist other people in sites, to work with people to get the job done and to get fruitful results.
I’ve been working at a school, with kindergarteners and 3rd graders. In the kindergarteners I help them read books and pronunciations of words, help them be creative and playful to each other. For the 3rd graders, I help them in every class, specially in mathematics because they are doing the State Exams and the school have a good score board of the progress the student have done by the past years.
Also I could be to assist other people in sites, to work with people to get the job done and to get fruitful results.
I’ve been working at a school, with kindergarteners and 3rd graders. In the kindergarteners I help them read books and pronunciations of words, help them be creative and playful to each other. For the 3rd graders, I help them in every class, specially in mathematics because they are doing the State Exams and the school have a good score board of the progress the student have done by the past years.
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