I can't believe how much I missed my students over Spring Break! Let's just start off with saying that they truly bring me happiness whenever I have my internship days.
This week we finally began working on the GT Pursuit of Passion project! I honestly love working with a small group of kids who actually want to learn and have similar thoughts/ideas as me. Usually, with the other kids, I always have to repeat directions and go very slow. However, I can cruise through each part of the project in the allotted time with ease.
The first group is a little awkward - the girls are very quiet and the boys only whisper. The entire 40 minutes is stretched out, but it will hopefully get easier once we get more in depth into the project and the project requires more talking amongst peers.
The second group is great! They all love to talk and ask questions about their project, the other two groups are very hesitant to do so. They also work diligently without getting off task and overall, it's a joy!
The third group is my most difficult group, partly because I'm not with them the entire time and also because they are so awkward and quiet! They work very very slowly and constantly have a hard time staying on task and working quickly. I'm not sure how I'm going to get them to work quicker, or we will never have their projects done (lol). However, a little girl from this group was writing her topic proposal and as I was walking I peeked at her paper. She wants to become a teacher and was inspired by me to take part in the Ready, Set, Teach! internship!! A huge grin flashed on my face. That might have been the first time I've ever seen one of my students write about teaching and being inspired by my internship.
I think the only negative side to the GT project is not being able to see my other kids. Since I'm with the GT group the entire time of their class, I haven't really talked or said hello to any of the other students in 6th grade. Ah, well it's okay! I'll get to it when I teach my first lesson for this semester.
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