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This picture summed up my day because all day I carefully observed the student's work by walking through the isles and looking at what they were doing. I realized that their way of learning is standard and completely opposite from the way of High Tech High, they learn a lot of their material through textbooks. This inspired me to ask the world if textbooks are really made to benifit the education of students. Comparing and contrasting the learning habits of my old school to those of my new, made me wonder if there really is a difference in the education of a child based on the way its taught. Basically, I began to wonder if one of the students learns more from a hands on lesson, or a text book lesson. To learn more about this I have decided today to do an "experiment" with the kids from the 4th grade class I'm helping out in. This experiment will be on Wednesday of next week and what I will do is divide the class into two, based on averaged out grades, and then teach one half a lesson from the usual book and teach the other half with a more hands on lesson. I will plan the whole lesson this weekend and run it by the teacher on Monday.
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I did not post the blog from last night but I have found some information on my mentor. She grew up in Kansas and went to school there until she was ten. Later on she had to move to California for her family and ended up going to college at USD. She began working at my internship site when she got married to the head master, Ray Volker. Some questions I would like to ask her for our interview tomorrow would be:
1. Did you have any aspirations for your career when you moved to California? What were they and did you achieve them?
2. Did your aspirations and dreams change with time? How and why do you think?
3.How was the experience of moving from Kansas to California?
4. Any advice for success?
5. Overall, are you happy and living the career life you want?
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