Monthly+Intership+Reflection+-+April+2011

The strategy for this month was to focus more on what I was doing inside the classroom as May would bring in a time of a lot of testing and limited instructional time.  All of the focus for this month was to make sure that I was using strategies that would help the students learn better and perform better in class. The early morning and lunch time lab times really came into play during this time as many seniors had to make sure that they were passing their classes since they would basically start the graduation process in the following month. I also had to give more help to those kids who were late starters and wanted to begin looking for college programs that they wanted to apply for. Many of them didn't have access to computers or to an individual with some college experience at their homes. So many of them would come to my lab to do some research on where they wanted to go and how they were going to pay for their education. This month really led me to think about the role of a technologist as an agent in the community for growth and not just a contributor of technological expertise to a campus. Learning about the ways people networked in education gave me ideas on how I could apply that very same concept towards learning and making decisions about colleges. I was able to find websites that provided online virtual tours of school campuses around the country that really helped in the decision making of the kids. During all of this time I still made myself available to the staff. I wasn't really asked to do a lot as many people were focusing on completing their subjects and preparing their students for the TAKS exams that they would take the next month.


 * Standards Met:** TF – I. B, TF-III.D, TF-V.B, TF-VI.E, TF-VIII.E