Last day of learn and seve!!

Today was my last day of learn and serve EVER!!!! i was so excited. As usual there was agian noone who needed any math help so i got stuck, again, runnning her errands. She made me run to the attendance office and back and then to the copy room and back and then to the main office and back and i was getting so furious. I was really upset and i just did not want to deal with that anymore. When i finally got back she had me record all her records for attendance. ugh i was realy uoset but did it anyways. Finally someone came in and needed help with math so i got a chacne to help her out. She did really well and understood by the end of the assignment what she had to do and what was required of her. She also informed me that she had passed her math test last week which is a huge success for her. I was so happy and Mrs. Mauro suggested that she thought it was becasue of the fact that i had helped her with all of this last week. the student agreed and also admitted to her that she had also gone home and studied for the test as well. this obviously would also have a positive effect on her grades and test results

December 1 learn and serve

Today i got a chance to work with danielle again. She hasnt been there the past few weeks due to a fight she was in..this seems to happen a lot in this school. Anyways, this student came to me and really needed help with her assignment so i tried my best to try to help her understand her assignment and her notes. it was kind of a funny thing because whast she was working on we had touched on in my foundations of mathematics class in college. i helped her out with truth tables and she slowly seemed to understand it just like every student normally does. I helped her with her homework and by the end of the paper she was doing it all on her own! i was so happy that she understood what she was doing. We went over it again just to make sure she fully understood what she was doing and then i startd to help her study for her upcoming test. After this is was just about time for me to leave and i was very happy to do so because Mrs. Mauro wanted me to start working on some of her paperwork so i was really excited to skip out of their fast as i could.

Learn and Serve Nov 24

Today i also got a chance to work more and more with the burn student. There was a lot less commotion today so he really got more of a chance to work one on one with me. He is not a poor math student by any means but he just really needed the help to get back on track and keep up with the rest of the students. The teacher in this resource room seems to struggle with math as many people do and she seemed to just leave me in charge of teaching him his material. He grasped it very quick today and he recieved good grades on the homework that we worked on the week beforehand. i was very proud in how far he came in such a short amount of time and that i had helped contruibute to his success. After he left, again there were not any math students so i jsut walked around the room and tried my best to help out the other studetns in the assignments that they were working on such as english papers and the students getting ready for the global final in january.

Learn and Serve November 17

Today in Learn and Serve we were very very busy. We had many students who needed my help and i felt like i was running in fiften different directions tryign to help everyone. At least it was better than running errands the whole time. I helped some kids out with their geometry assignment and then i helped out others in trigonometry which is by far my favorite math to work with. The studetns all seemed to have the same problem with understanding what the teacher was trying to explain to them. They all told me the same thing, "We dont understand it in class but when you explain it, it makes so much more sense!". Well im glad i could help! Most of thes tudetns finally seemed to grasp the content more and more and they slopwly didnt need my help as much except to check over their work to make sure they did it correctly. I also got to work with another new studetnt to the class. He is the star basketball player and he has been assigned to Mrs. MAuro's room more and more lately because of the fact that he has a bad injury. He was cooking at his house and he burned himself on very hot grease and has second degree burns all over his hand. This caused hiim to miss a lot of school so i got to help him out in all the areas he was struggling with. He seemed to catch on very quickly but i felt as though i had to teach him every lesson because of the fact that he was not attending class. It was fun to play the role of teacher but im sure it ha not been a fun ride for this particular student.http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED498986&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED498986

learn and Serve November 10

Today in Learn and Serve it was kind of a quite day. Again we didnt have many students who needed help woth math so iw as pretty much her assistant for the day. I ran her errands for different students and delivered different notes to people. It felt like it was a complete waste of time and i was not happy about it at all. But me being the quite girl i am when it comes to situations like this, i did not want to say anything so i just did as i was told. The last period that i was there she did finally have someone who needed a little math help. Her name was Danielle and she was a new student to this special ed class. She was just placed in this room and she had just met mrs. mauro as well. She was a really sweet girl and didnt understand the math that she was doing in her class so i tried my best to reexplain her notes to her and she actually understood what i was telling her and comprehended it. I also helped her out with her homework she nedded done. We worked together on the first two and then she ended up doing the rest of the assignment by herself with limied and finally no help from me at all. It felt really rewarding when she told me that she understood it so much more when i explained it to her then when her teacher had tried to teach the lesson to the class

Learn and Serve Nov 3

I felt that this Learn and Serve was not a very productive one for me in dealing with my content area. Being in a resource room, you have different kids coming each day and they bring different work with them each time so the chance of getting a student who needs math help is very high. The teacher does try to tell them that on Tuesdays they need to bring math but somedays there is just no students who need help. Welcome Today!! There were no students who needed my help in the two hours that i was there so the teacher had me orghanize and create a binder full of all her attendance sheets. I had to fill out a sheet for each student with theri name, student ID number, parents name, home phone number grade, teacher name, classroom number and extension. For all 25 students she has throughout the day! What a bore. I then had to go through attendance sheets and record what days each student was absent and then the teacher will go back in and record exactly why they were absent.

Learn and Serve Oct 27

This Learn and Serve was a great experience for me in my content area. I had a chance to actually work with some students that actaully needed help in Math. I had one student who was new tp the resource room and she really grasped the ideas that i was telling her. It was so rewarding to hear her say how much more she understood the way i explained it than when the teacher explained it. I was so happy i could help her. I also helped a student out with his test that he needed to take. i sat with him and helped him out through some little knots that he came across and voerall he seemed to do quite well with the test. i felt really well when i left this placement today and like i had really accomplished something and really helped out these students and there lives! It was such a rewarding experience to feel!