Practicum Experiences Reflection

When reading my first partners responses I realized that there were some distinct similarities and differences. Both of us found that students in general where well behaved and respectful. Both myself and my partner found that there was no strict policy on the use of ipds and phones, I personally find this very troublesome as we may struggle to change implement a policy. The same applies to the lack of consistency for punishment of lateness. I found that in both math and PE there was great communication between teachers which is in contrast to what my partner saw. At times in PE facilities were shared due to weather, and in math collaboration was used to write midterms. I was amazed to read on my partners blog that there teachers could not deduct marks for late assignments, where as I thought I saw students recieve zero for work not completed and no opportunity to hand it in late.

It seemed that my second partner had a sort of a shock when entering the classroom. It appeares as though the students were well below his expectations. I feel it is important to set high standards for students, and we are tools for the students to use to get to these high standards. Once again this partner saw a lack of communication between teachers, especially outside of departments. I think that it is essentially a school atmosphere that effects this as all teachers were really welcoming and seemed to communinicate well between departments. However, as my partner noticed it is clear that some students/parents want to try to struggle through principles of math instead of being placed in one of the alternate choices. At my school a student was taking principles of math 10 for the thrid time and still not passing!