Interaction with Teachers and Students

As far I can remember the best moments all throughout school were those in which you got to work with your classmates. Having teamwork for many teachers and students it is beneficial because it allows students to work on social skills. Teachers on the other hand are not lecturing and telling the students what to do step by step they just guide their students. In Mrs. Garza’s class I didn’t get to engage with students in their group activities the only interaction I had with them was when the students need to be monitored to make sure the students stayed on TAKS because they were disruptive.

There was a young lady Mandy in the class of my observation that seemed to be working really hard on the work she had assigned. She however seemed to have trouble getting the correct answer. I sat with her one day trying to explain the procedure in trying to figure out what she could do to ease her process of finding the correct answer. I asked her why she thought it was hard and she said it was because she would read and all she would read was information that went in one ear and went out the other super quick. I told her why don’t you try to take notes after each paragraph you read. She took this into consideration and on her next passage she got a passing score on the assessment. Her reading skills are there and she is smart she just needs to be taught the right techniques that are going to help her improve her testing skills.

Many of the interactions that I had with the students were mainly me monitoring them if they kept up with the lesson and their work. Many of these students tend to get easily distracted and I facilitated the lesson by helping the teach focus on helping the students with the lesson and their work.

Since my observations was during the summer session many of the extracurricular activities where not available for the students. The main study was focus on the core class that in my case was reading.