Extra Blog: January

This month in my mentorship, I worked with the students. More specifically, I worked with students in groups. The way my mentor sets up her class, is so that the students work together in groups of 3 or 4. She usually teaches a lesson followed by an activity, and that allows students to work together and understand what the lesson was about. I helped out by going around and checking to see that the groups were on the right tracks with their ideas. Through this I learned that for the most part, my mentor knows her students. She usually pairs up one or two of her lower kids with someone who is doing well in her class, and that usually lead to a collaberation between the students to get a mutual understanding of the topics. This technique seems to be really good because the students work efficiently and help each other out.