Monthly+Internship+Reflection+-+May+2011

May brought the final month of my internship period. By now I had finished all of the required hours that I needed but I still needed to complete all of the standards. I had five standards that I had to meet which were TF - VIII.C, TF - VII.A, TF - IV.A, TF - V.D and TF - VII.C. The plan was to complete these in the first three weeks as the final two weeks were reserved for testing. So in order to meed these five standards there were four activities that I participated in that met the requirements. The first activity I completed was to try to set up a Dual Credit class for the following school year. Through this class students would receive both high school and college credit for a class that they took with me. I contacted a representative form Houston Community College and got all of the required information. I believed that setting up this class would strengthen the partnership between my school and the college and I would have access to new ideas that could be used within my classroom. The next activity that I completed was to show a co-worker of mine, how to set up and access his teacher folder on the school network. He was slated to change rooms and I suggested that if he transferred his files to the server, he could access his information from any computer inside the school. This would save him the trouble of having to keep up with multiple storage devices that he would have been forced to use. Standards TF - IV.A and TF - VII.C were met during the third week of this month. During this time the computer labs in the school were scheduled to administer the End of Course Exam. This was a online based exam that would replace the TAKS test. I had the responsibility of helping to set up the computers for the exam as well as to show some of my co-workers who were unfamiliar with the process how to complete it. Once the computers in the lab was set up, it was my job through out the course of the week to monitor the students as they took the test and enable and disable the exam from the administrative computer in the lab. The final activity for this month was done during the week that my seniors took their finals and it met standard TF - V.D. I introduced and showed my senior class Google Docs and how they could use it as a collaborative tool. I had learned how to use this web tool while taking part in my //Teaching with Technology// class. After I showed them how to use Google Docs, I gave them their final that required them to use Google Docs in order to meet the objectives. The entire Internship process was a big learning experience, it allowed me to see how things that I did on a regular basis can be looked at in a different way and it also forced me to think outside of the box to look for new strategies that could be used to help build my program. I can truly say that I have grown over the course of this class and look forward to continuing to share what I have learned and experienced with others.


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