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 3^rd graders and some 3^rd 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.