School Visit 2

This was my second visit to the Bat Cave, and my first time meeting the classroom teacher, Mrs. Qwerty. The assignment for the classes, both 7th grade and 8th grade, was test corrections. The students were allowed to use their text books, to find the answers that they either skipped on the test, or answered incorrectly. The students were allowed full credit for all of the questions that they were able to answer using the text book.

I sat at a table in the front of the classroom, adjacent to the teacher’s desk. I worked with one of the seventh graders in the first period that I was there for. I worked with “Domino,” who answered almost no questions at all on his first attempt at the test. We would read the question together, and then each look through a text book. I would find the answer, and then tell “Domino” which paragraph he would need to read in order to find the answer.

I did this same thing with the same test and the same textbook, for the 8th grade class, which had the same assignment. I worked with two students in this group, doing the same thing. I would find the answer, and lead them to the paragraph that contained the answer.

All three of the students that I worked with were all very polite, contrary to the rest of the class. The classes were just as loud and obnoxious as they were last week. There were times that day, where Mrs. Qwerty was begging and pleading and threatening the students in order to make them quiet, and doing their work. The eighth graders were more rambunctious then the seventh graders were. Students were constantly getting up out of their seats, yelling across the room, and playfully shoving each other. Mrs. Qwerty also carries a whistle on her keys, in order to get the attention of the class when yelling is not enough.

It was nice working with small groups of the students, who, when I was working with them, were able to stay quiet, and work for the entire period. I believe that if a teacher was able to work with a smaller group of these students, it would be easier to keep them under control, and keep them on track more often then not.