As you may know, my internship started a week later than everyone else. To catch up on blog posts, I decided to combine the blogging assignments and do two in one week.
1. What is the biggest challenge you've faced at your internship?
There have been a few challenges I have had to face at this internship. The first one is understanding the logistics of the UK school system. There are quite a few things that they do differently compared to what we do in the United States. Even the simple logistics that I am used to at home are different here. For example, a grade is a mark and a semester is a term. These may seem simple and obvious but are things that are important to know if you are working in the British school system.
2. How do you see your role developing at your internship?
On my first day, I must have looked like an alien to the students and staff at Yewlands. The looks I was recieving were quite hilarious. If I walked up to a student in class, they would shrug down in their seats and look the other way. I didn't take it the wrong way though. They are 11 and 12 years old and are shy. As I worked with them one by one and talked to them, they began to see me not only as a member of staff, but a person willing to help them improve their work. As of now, if I were to walk into one of their classes, they would be eager to have me critique their work.
In the long run, my role has developed from someone to be afraid of to someone who can help students improve their work as well as their work ethic.
3. What has surprised you most while working at your internship?
Something that has surprised me the most is seeing the ways critique can benefit students and their work. The students I am working with are 11 and 12 years old and they really like to make sure they are giving kind, helpful, and specific feedback to their peers. The other day, I was reading through some of the students journals to see what they do when they critique each others writing. Each draft, there is a huge difference. In the picture below, you see an example of a student critiquing their peers work. Students take this feedback seriously and spend quite a bit of time improving their writing.
1. What is the biggest challenge you've faced at your internship?
There have been a few challenges I have had to face at this internship. The first one is understanding the logistics of the UK school system. There are quite a few things that they do differently compared to what we do in the United States. Even the simple logistics that I am used to at home are different here. For example, a grade is a mark and a semester is a term. These may seem simple and obvious but are things that are important to know if you are working in the British school system.
2. How do you see your role developing at your internship?
On my first day, I must have looked like an alien to the students and staff at Yewlands. The looks I was recieving were quite hilarious. If I walked up to a student in class, they would shrug down in their seats and look the other way. I didn't take it the wrong way though. They are 11 and 12 years old and are shy. As I worked with them one by one and talked to them, they began to see me not only as a member of staff, but a person willing to help them improve their work. As of now, if I were to walk into one of their classes, they would be eager to have me critique their work.
In the long run, my role has developed from someone to be afraid of to someone who can help students improve their work as well as their work ethic.
3. What has surprised you most while working at your internship?
Something that has surprised me the most is seeing the ways critique can benefit students and their work. The students I am working with are 11 and 12 years old and they really like to make sure they are giving kind, helpful, and specific feedback to their peers. The other day, I was reading through some of the students journals to see what they do when they critique each others writing. Each draft, there is a huge difference. In the picture below, you see an example of a student critiquing their peers work. Students take this feedback seriously and spend quite a bit of time improving their writing.