During my internship I hope it is not a stressful experience. I hope that I find it interesting and learn a lot about a new career. By the end of internship I hope I have learned new skills that help me in the future. I am worried that I will not be independent enough or know even going in and disappoint my mentor. Overall I think it will be a positive experience and help me prepare for my future. 

I can use the leadership and problem solving skills I learn at my internship for my academics. I have to adapt and find solutions to problems quickly. I think I can also use collaboration and communication skills I learn. During internship the students go to me for help and I have to be empathic and set a good example. I can also use these skills I learned at both internship and High Tech for my future  and career.  

Entry 1

For my project I will be working with the students and having them make "Call to Action" posters. These posters will have problems that occur in our society such as pollution and  discrimination that connect to lessons the children have learned throughout theses weeks. The posters will have what the problem is, what we can do to help solve it, and why we should solve it. I will have to learn how to talk to young children about serious issues. It will require leadership skills and communi-cation skills. It will benefit the organization by teach their stu-dents how to become more accepting and considerate people. 

Entry 2

The biggest challenge I have had has been being patient. The kids I work with are the youngest group of children I have worked with. They still have lots of concepts to learn and therefore are extremely dependent on me and the teachers in the class. Almost all of them need help during each activity. Often the children don't enjoy the lesson or activity we are working one so I need to stay patient and reason with them by explaining why it is important that they complete there work. I have to be empathic in order to explain the material to them. 

Entry 1

The first type of people my work at internship benefits is the children. Because of how young they are they need a lot help and having one more person in the class allows the kids to get more one-on-one time during the school day. The second person would be my mentor. During one of our conversations she told me that the small task she has me do (copying, grading, cutting out paper, hanging the children's assignments up) she would normally have to do by herself which takes away the time from lesson planning and teaching. The third type of people would be the parents. Since the kids are getting more help in learning the materials, the parents have an easier time helping their kids with the homework. This also means the parents will worry less about how their child is doing in school. The fourth person would be myself. The work I do helps  me with the skills I mentioned in the second blog and therefore makes me a better person, student, and employee in the future. 

Entry 2

Most of High Tech's projects are group projects and have as little teacher involvement as possible. Instead we assign each other roles and do our part of the project according to those roles. If there is problems we try to solve it our selves without getting a teacher involved. I think that has significantly helped me in being successful at my internship. High Tech is also very big on presentations and public speaking. I think that helps me to be professional and teach lessons to the kids. All of my projects at High Tech have had a debate, Socratic seminar, and/or an essay as a deliverable. Those have taught me about providing evidence and reasoning for my beliefs and stances which has helped me when asking the children to do something. We also talk about knowing your audience which has helped me in adapting from talking to high schoolers, teachers, and younger children. 

Entry 3

My internship site is a very social place. I am working with 1st graders. All the first grade teacher follow the same lesson plans, so that all the first graders, regardless of water class they were in have the same prior knowledge going into 2nd grade. The other grades in the school don't do this. It makes it easier as then the teachers are able to tell each other what works for the lessons and what doesn't. At the beginning of a new unit the teachers have a meeting and decide how and what the lessons are going to be. 

Entry 1

My mentor always wanted to be a teacher. She has been a teacher for twenty-five years. She is from Rhode Island. She attended Boston University. She moved San Diego and started teaching at a school in La Jolla. Teachers at that school started switching to working at a dual immersion school so she started working there and worked there for 10 years. Finally she started working at Foster Elementary. 

Entry 2

At the beginning of internship I was just helping the kids out with their daily assignments. As internship progressed I started helping plan and grade assignments. I made small projects for the kids. For my final project I will teach a lesson and lead a small project about nature and animals. The kids also though of me differently. The first week they didn't know who I was and only talked to me when the other teachers were busy. Now they think of me as the same as the other teachers. They are a lot more talkative and out going around me than my first week. 

Entry 1

I made a slide deck for my iPOL. I took pictures of the school and my work I've done. I haven't memorized my slides but they are only bullet points and pictures so I plan on just explaining what each thing means. I don't have pictures of my project because I have the project there along with different parts of the process that I can explain to the sophomores and teachers. My iPOL will be in the classroom that I am teaching in and other student work will be displayed throughout the classroom. 

Entry 2

I don't currently want to be a teacher or anything in education. I chose this internship because I have worked with kids many times before. I would always babysit and be a camp counselor but I never considered it as a career. One of the teachers I am working with started in a STEM field, which is what I am interested in as a career. She told me about her journey to becoming a teacher and I though it was interesting. Although I don't plan on becoming a teacher I did enjoy may parts of teaching and it might come in helpful if I ever have to train or teach people in my field.