March 31, 2011

I still enjoy helping at the middle school. It has been a joy to see the way a middle school class runs. The students finished filling out the charts they had made in days previous. Then they studied for a quiz they were about to have. While they were studying I worked with a couple of them helping them to study. This gave me a chance to have some personal interaction with the students. One thing that has become apparent to me through watching this class is how many students don't care about the class and are disrespectful to the teacher and disrupting the class. These students need set structure from the beginning of the school year so they know that there are rules that must be followed. When it comes to students who have special needs there is a second teacher in the classroom who specializes in this. She works specifically with those designated students and modify there tests and quizzes to fit their abilities. However, this teacher retired yesterday for family reasons. This means that the main teacher will have to modify her normal procedures to cover the other teachers duties as well.