Week 2 - Getting Comfortable!

Stefanie Flory

February 4, 2021

    Today started off crazy.. due to technology of course 😐 This morning my MT had internet complications and had told me she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to meet with her students. I was so disappointed, she told me she was going to try and get it figured out right away! I was eagerly waiting for her to tell me it was fixed and ready to go! She ended up having to move locations to get better connection and WiFi but we were able to meet about 30 minutes after her class day usually starts! I was SO relieved and excited to get the day going! The children are always so excited to see myself and my MT and it really makes me feel so warm inside so I was grateful it all worked out for us. 

    One thing that was really exciting today for me was I got to do my first small group session with about 8 of the students! Earlier in the week, they read a story about Ruby Bridges and had to answer questions using the 7 key concepts; form and function, causation, connection and change, and perspective and responsibility about the story and the term segregation. My MT put me into a break out room with the students. At first I was nervous because I was not present in the class when they read the story the first time so I did not know if I was going to have to quickly learn the story. However, the students were AMAZING in the discussion, they were so knowledgable about the story and the term segregation, what it means, looks like, etc. They were so talkative and we had an amazing discussion about it. Once we finished in the small group, we went back for a whole group discussion and furthered our conversations. 

I will say, I did have to be firm when leading the small group, due to the students changing the backgrounds on their videos (which my MT doesn't allow them to do) but they all quickly listened and turned them back to the original background so that was good!