For independent component 2, I taught some more at THINK Together. After completing service learning there, I worked for 50 more hours afterwards. My time there has helped me become a better teacher and has improved my social skills a lot in comparison to the beginning of the year.
Literal:
At THINK Together, I have personally tutored and taught classrooms of kids in various grades. During this time, I had to adapt to the students' needs and their learning styles as a collective. Some observations I have taken note of are the attitudes of students at different age groups and locations. Students seem to learn behavior not only from their parents and teachers, but from themselves.
Interpretive:
The younger students are, the more impressionable they seem to be. The odd thing about teaching students as a collective is that they seem to form one unit, or be like one person. I believe that students learn from their environment and each other more than even the teacher.
Applied:
By paying attention to their needs and how they react to things in class and the material, it is possible to increase the learning experience of the children by using the children themselves to enable them to retain most of the information taught. Of course, this doesn't always work, when it fails it is usually best to work with the students that didn't understand the lesson one on one.
My independent component 2 is logged along with my service learning in the following link. 50 of the hours are for service learning and the other 50 are for independent component 2.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ara_GUYxm8i_dHpMVUZTeWZzS2ZqQkVvU1NuTWhNYXc&hl=en_US#gid=0
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