Internship Hours September 8, 2006

Time	9:30-10:30
Internship Goal Addressed	Library Instruction Observation
Activity Summary	Helping Sue prepare for her afternoon class.

Notes

I got to watch S. put the final touches on her plans for the Business Policy and Internation Management Classes. This included editing the worksheets for each of the classes. For each activity she checked to make sure the groups' topics would make for effective searches. S. was concerned about which resources she should use to teach from for her students. She has the course guide, the subject guide and a handout to work with. She took some time weighing the options. Each assignment did have to be changed a little from last semester's classes to this semester's. I can definitely tell that planning in advance is a good way to keep awkward moments from happening in the class.

Questions

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Time	2:00-3:00
Internship Goal Addressed	Library Instruction Observation
Activity Summary	Observing the Business Policy Class

Notes

S. taught the Business Policy Class she had been planning. She did alot of interesting things to keep the class interested and engaged. To begin, she taught at the front of the class and had me operate the computer demo. That way she was not talking to their backs. S. also stuck to her plan of explaining a small portion of the activity and the letting the students do the activity. It divided the class into easily digestable pieces. Another thing I noticed was that she let the students control whether they would watch the demo or not. This gave them the opportunity to go ahead if they already understood the demo. I observed the students while she was teaching. At first I thought some of them might be looking at other sites, but it was just that a couple of students had gone ahead and were doing their searches as the demo was going on. I very much like S.'s teaching style. She gives the students a flexiblity that makes their learning active and it doesn't feel like she's trying make them do anything they can't do. I think I would like to combine aspects of B.'s style and S.'s style in my own, namely B.'s level of expectation and academic fervor and S.'s style of flexibility.