6/2/2017 0 Comments Friday, June 2 1. I learned how to better explain how to use aurduino because before it was hard for me to communicate to others how to do the coding and I didn't understand how to tell others how to do it especially children. I also learned how to adapt my teaching style and teach the same or similar concepts to multiple age levels. This was especially important because we had to teach kinder gardeners, 3rd grader, and 7th graders how to code. The big age gaps meant I had to change how I taught every new class. 2. I am decently organized but a lot of the people who work here have a very organized work flow that I love and it makes me want to set of my workflow in such a way that I am just as productive like that. Also I like how the people who work at the thinkabit labs are professional but still have fun and enjoy there jobs it proves to me having a job can still be fun if you find the right environment to work in. 3. I see my life as one that can actually be enjoyable because I had fun working here and I always thought an office job like this would be something i would just have to taught it out to make money but I found if you find the right place to work at you can actually have a job that it fun to work at and that you don't dread coming to every day. It showed me that I can actually look forward to my future as being fun and not a hassle. 4. This internship showed me how I can adapt to situations with little direction or knowledge of whats happening it showed me I can deal with situations where there isn't always a person telling you what to do it showed me that I can improvise rather quickly and keep things moving at a fast pace an not losing people along the way. 5. This internship showed me again that I love to be in an environment where I feel like I belong and i have friends around me it showed me the type of environment that I want to work in when I'm older. This whole experience got me thinking about life and about my future and my plans to live in San Diego. 6. We learned how to communicate and a huge portion of a job is all communication. Emails, data, presentations, and other forms are all highly important to communicate to others. They held formal meeting at the thinkabit lab where people would look at what the thinkabit lab has done so they could hopefully replicate it at there own schools. Ill take with me that talking to people and working with there differences can mean you can get along with more people and be more productive.
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6/1/2017 0 Comments Thursday, June 1st2. Our project so to say was working at the Urban Discovery Academy to teach 3 different grades the thinkabit lab experience. I measured the successes by seeing that the kids we taught were genuinely interested in what we taught them. They had smiles on there faces and many wanted to go farther along in the process and learn more. We with our limited teaching experience were able to teach the thinkabit lab experience to kindergartners something that the staff at thinkabit lab had never done before. We are able to structure our own lessons and had to change them to fit each age group multiple times in a day. For example we had a 3rd grade class 7th grad class and a kindergarten class all in one day. We had to constantly adapt and change our methods to teach the class the best way.
3. I make a meaningful contribution because I have had teaching experience so I feel comfortable leading group activity's and working with children from all different age groups. Working with children to me isn't hard as long as you can adapt quickly to each groups needs. Also I have a strong work ethic so I am always willing to help. 4. Even though I don't want to be a teacher this experience has helped improve my skills working with children. It has helped me be able to switch my teaching level quickly. I haven't academically learned anything its more of things I have experienced that has made the whole thing so good. I have learned how to teach under pressure with little resources or prep time I found that out in kindergarten on the first day. 5. I think what we do at thinkabit lab which is often teaching the classes to the students. We inspire kids to think about there futures at a young age and teach them how cool the STEM field is. We had a meeting with officials from the Austin Texas school district who wanted to talk about building there own thinkabit lab inspired place. There I really saw the impact that this one site has in that it serves the huge San Diego Unified School District witch has thousands of kids who are in it. It has a positive affect on the community because it gets kids excited to learn engineering and helps them get started thinking about there futures. 6. Us teaching at another school wasn't originally the plan until we found out there was a dead week in our internship where we wouldn't be doing anything so it was suggested that we would go teach at another school to make up the time. Or engineering teacher was in contact with the director of the school the Urban Discovery Academy. We then arranged and met with the steam teacher and worked our our schedule and taught the class the while week teaching 6 different classes from 3 different grades. 7. One thing I Pride myself on is my work ethic I know that its strong and I will devote and get things done that have to be done. This experience really didn't teach me new about my work ethic or make it stronger but it reinforced it and made me more confident in myself and my ability's especially when it comes to teaching. This experience helped me become a better teacher and helped show me that I can do better than I think I can at teaching complex topics. 8. Photos of our time at the Urban Discovery Academy can be found in earlier blog posts. |