How does this class help me

This class helped me in multiple ways. Being in this class has lead me to get this opportunity to be the first ever intern at MEP Compass. I am a Compass Teachers Assistant that works among varying Teacher and getting the opportunity to work with student of diverse needs. Helping with encore ( electives ) bus/ pick up and classroom and behavior management. I've learned how to grow my leadership skills and confidence in the workfield and other steps to be ready for continuing on with a career.

PE with a student

How this class is different from other classes

This class isn’t like any class at Mahomet Seymour High School, Workplace Learning allows students to get hands on experience and grow in their academics at the same time. Workplace learning teaches students to look into their job on a deeper level and start to analyze their everyday job and how to learn and grow from their job. Not only do students get the opportunity to get paid and save for the future, but also gives a young adult more credibility at a younger age to get a higher paying job later on in their lives.

A day in my job

My job looks different every day and can change and vary during the day. Here is an example.

I get to MEP kindergarten at 12:45-3pm Monday through Friday where I work with students from kindergarten to second grade. I work with students with diverse needs and no student is the same. Working with young kids I’ve learned that behaviors can change minute from a minute. With that in mind in the classroom we might have something planned, but it could change when the teachers wants to adapt to a students need.

A regular day when I get there at 12:45 is, When I arrive students are usually doing song and listing to a book that gets read allowed. After that students go up to their schedules and see what’s next on their agenda, depending on the time they have the options or going to sensory,recess, play area and art time. After students are done with that part of their schedule they’ll move on for the rest of their day continuing, I will usually go with a student to their encore on their day, it could be music, art, or ABL. After encore is almost time to pack up and leave, where I help students get there bags on and take them to their buses and or parents for dismissal. Now it’s about 2:35 I will start to do students schedules to get them ready for the next day next, I will clean up the play and sensory area and get the classroom ready for the following day.

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