1. Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship. If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so farina the search for a mentor.
Originally I had planned on my senior project being about teaching physics, however, I realized there are very few physicist around my area, and since it was the summer, none of the physics teachers were working. Eventually I realized it would be impossible for me to find someone with the little amount of time I had left. So I decided to look to other teaching positions in hope that it would prepare me a little for the teaching aspect of my original topic. I talked to a couple of teachers at the high schools in my area, but again they were one summer vacation, and wouldn't be able to actually help me into school started for me too. Finally, I turned my mother who is math teacher, and her district had started a week before we did, so I decided that she would be a good mentor. Since then, I helped her create lesson plans and clean up her class before school actually began.
2. What has been the most important article you have read so far and why?
I would say the most important article I have read is "Grade 8" by the Common Core State Standards Initiative because it helped me understand what is being taught to the students. Although I wanted to focus mostly on the teaching aspect of my senior project, it is imperative that I understand what is being taught so that I could understand why it is being taught a certain way.
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