The past few weeks of class, we have been spending time with students ranging from kindergarten to 8th grade. This was a neat experience for me, and placed at a really convenient time as well. I spent some time in classrooms because of my courses but not much, mostly just observations. It was very cool to be able to make up our own game for family math night and see how students and their parents were able to react to it, and also give us their feedback.
While at the WMAAA a few weeks back, we had an activity given to us to work on with the students. But it was nice to not have to worry about the organization portion of it and just work on the teaching parts, and getting to know the students. Personally, I met 3 boys who were all in 6th grade, two of them were best friends and one of them was just sitting at the table. And with the 45 minutes that I was able to talk to the, I learning so much about every single one of them. They were not afraid to tell me what they liked most, what they didn't like, etc. And it was nice to just sit back and listen while working on the activity.
Overall, being in the classroom these few times was refreshing. It was just a little reminder as to why we all stay up late finishing projects, studying, finishing up endless lesson plans, etc. It makes everything worth it.
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