HCSD Preschool
I mentored two more days this week, and I am still adjusting to the classrooms. They are very different from the traditional high school classrooms that I have grown used to; there are fewer students and more adults, and there are a lot of things going on at once. While the main teacher is working with the majority of the class on a new letter of the alphabet or reading a story, sometimes there are other students who have trouble focusing or need other individual attention. Typically in these situations, an assistant will pull that student out of the main circle and sit with them and help them to focus their attention back towards the activity at hand. It gets a little crazy when there are multiple students who require individual attention, and that is how there ends up being so many different things happening in the room all at once. All of the teachers and assistants are amazing, though, and I want to learn more about the different techniques they use to calm those students when a situation like that arises. The teachers I am with are also super helpful in explaining what different activities are for and answering any questions I may have. For example, there was a day when one of the classrooms had a table set up with various counting activities, and I learned about the different activities that you can do with students all with the same materials, depending on their level of understanding the numbers. So far, mentoring in the preschool has been a blast, and I love watching the students as they are learning and processing new information. My favorite part has been watching their faces light up when something clicks in their mind and they begin to understand things better. I am looking forward to watching the students grow even more over the next few weeks!
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