Monthly+Internship+Reflection+-+December+2010

The month of December only had one week of instruction because of finals and the two weeks that we had for winter break. Therefore the strategy for this month was to focus more on what I was doing inside the classroom which where basically standards TF – I. B, TF-III.D, TF-V.B, TF-VI.E, TF-VII.B, TF-VIII.E. Because this point in the school year was the halfway point, the information that Gradespeed provided was really important to me because I had to use it to identify the subject topics that I needed to review that the finals covered. I usually give practical finals as opposed to paper-based finals so that I can see if the students know what they doing as oppose to just regurgitating the information that I gave them. So during the review period before the finals, I allowed the students to ask me about any topic that they had difficulty in and assigned activities that would review the areas that they were week in.

I also used the times that I kept the lab open, to have the students come in and complete any missing assignments or receive any help that they needed. Because of these strategies, the student performed really well on the final and I had close to ninety percent pass. During this time I was also given the opportunity to show one of my coworkers a feature of Microsoft XP that we were using inside the classroom. It was the narration feature that can be used by our special needs students that he didn't know existed in the operating system. The meetings that I held with my mentor were more directed to what we would focus on during the second half of the school year as there were alot more standards that needed to be met.


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