Today was an okay day because hardly any customers came by and business was running slowly. I did not have a lot of work to do. But I did what I typically do when I arrive at my internship. Today was a day like any ordinary day. I became bored because hardly no one came and I had nothing to do. I am starting to think how some business are getting affected by the economy when hardly any customers come by. I would say that I kind of had a long break and i like that because typically I am always busy. Since there were hardly any customers when I arrived the baker taught my how to create icing that goes on top of the cinnamon rolls. It was funny when i tried to create that icing when I made cinnamon rolls at my house becuase the icing came out watery and nasty. When I learn something new at my internship I try to copy it at home but unfortunately it does not work out as i would like.

Today was an ordinary day. I was putting a lot of bake goods on display. Today a lot of people came and it was very hectic. Today out of no where people started to come by and order food like crazy. I was kind of nervous on how chaotic it can get with people lining up outside the door. At first i was calm but them I became stressed out. Too many customers came in. Alot of goods were sold and the baker had to bake twice as much as he usually bakes. I was very tired at the end of the chaos. I was helping out the baker with the pastries and it was a nice experience because I learned alot from the learning experience. I am trying to apply what I am learning at my internship in terms of baking but it is not as easy as it seems when I see the baker bakes goods. It is very hard to learn how to bake, there's alot of science that a baker has to use when baking good. Overall even though that whole chaotic issue I had a learning experience.

Reflection on yesterday's internship

Well, yesterday I had an amazing day at my internship. Not only did i began to get my hands on my interest but I also tired to step out of my interest and learn how to cook. I have to say that I was first skeptical because i don't like cooking period. But after I the employees taught me how to cook i realized that it was not hard as it seems. I usually don't cook at home and when I began to learn how to cook I really liked that experienced and I realized that I enjoy cooking as much as I enjoy baking good at my house. To me cooking was hard at first because you have to remember all the ingredients and baking is the same thing but I am really good at baking goods in holidays. Like I said I had so much fun because I got so much out of that experience.

What I'm learning from La Casa Latina

Going to La Casa Latina for almost 1 month has been an amazing opportunity. I have not yet gotten my hands-on my internship but my mentor told me that right now i need to learn the basics like organizing the pastries to make them look pretty. I have not yet mastered that because since the baker bakes alot of pastries I keep forgetting how a certain pastry should be displayed in the display window. After mysterying that he will then teach me how to bake goods. He said that baking is not the only things that his interns do, they also help around like sweeping, customers, organizing the materials. I am so excited to learn how to bake goods later on. By the end of my internship i want to be able to identify myself as a baker by baking things from scratch.

Reflection: Shadow Day At La Casa Latina

I remember that when I walked in to do my shadow day at La Casa Latina I could smell the aroma of bread and pastries. I walked in ready to expeirence a fun day and exciting day. I met all the employees their and they were nice people. Jose told me that I was going to be working with the baker there. Ruben, baker, taught me some basic that I need to know like organizing the pastries so that they look appetizing and pretty. I learned reletivley quickly. He also taught me how to put custard in a cupcake looking pastry. During the shadow day I observed him making pastries. I have got to say that it's not as esay as it looks. It a tough job both mentally and physically. I on the other hand had lots of fun and that why I choose this internship.

Qualities For Next LTI

The qualities that I am looking for next years LTI are that I want to intern at a place that I am comfortable and that I would have a mentor that had the same qualities that the mentor that I worked with had. I have already experience what is like to be a teacher for almost seven months and I have to say that I would pursue that career but I want to explore any other interest that I have right now. I would love to work at a science place or a bakery. I would be more than happy to stay at my internship for one more year but I don't know if I would be missing out on other opportunities that er out there that might benefit me in the future. I would work with a mentor that always checks up on me, I mean a mentor that is on your side and that is guiding you every step of the way. For example if I decide to work at a bakery I would first want to be guided on how to bake stuff but as I get better I would love to become independent and bake cakes by my self. I would also like to work at a place that is in the bay area and not in San Fransisco because i am not ready to be somewhere far away. I want to stay as near as possible from my fmaily. I an not ready to venture out of the Bay area but on the other hand I know that this will benefit me in the future.

Another Topic

Another topic that is debated at my LTI is having the ELD class for the students. My mentor and all the teachers agree that having that class really is not that engaging to them. When it comes to teach the ELD class my mentor does not look forward to it, she says that the class is boring to them and that they don't focus as much as my mentor would like them to focus. I could see that my mentor does not like that class and that she has a difficult time maintaining their focus. I mean it the end of the day and they all want to go home and rest. That would be another topic that they are most likely to debate over. Also depending on what level the students are they would go to either ELD of AED. But really it annoys my mentor that they have to do it. Me personally don't see what the point of the class is. Most of the thing that they are learning they have already learned in kindergarten. I mean it words that they hear int the daily baisis and that they should know by the 1st grade. Their are many students that are very high academically and they go to the AED class. But overall me, my mentor, and all the other teachers don' t see why they do this.

Debating topic

At my LTI there are a few topic that are debated at my internship. The topic that they always debate are the how they arrange the time for the students to go to lunch. My mentor does not like the way that they arrange the time. She says that it very frustrating to have the students wait until it is the time to go in. I also agree with her because the students should not have to wait for them to get the food ready. I mean that if the class come to the cafeteria early they should not wait any longer because they get really hungry. One time my mentor lead her students to lunch earlly and they told her that they need to wait outside until they were ready. It was actually time for the students to get there lunch but the women did not see the time. Also on top of that she wouldn't let my mentor near the food. They said that they need to get their food by themselves. I got was really shocked by the way that they were not doing there job well and they way they are always grouchy and yell at all the teachers.

Reflecting on my growth

Throughout the seven months that I have been at my internship I have grown as a person in many different ways. I have developed my teaching skills throughout the time that I have gone to my internship. I now know that it is a very difficult job to be a teacher. I mean that being a teacher takes a lot of hard work and a lot of energy from you. It is hard but at the same time it is rewarding knowing that you change their live positively. Also knowing that you made a difference in the child's life. The personal qualities that I have developed are that I know speak up and ask clarifying questions because I learned the hard way. I have discovered that over the course of the internship program I have slowly broken out from my shell. The internship program has shown me that theres more out there in the world that i need to explore. I am now more open and asking my mentor a lot of questions to clarify what the task is given to me. I have build a strong relationship with my mentor and her students. It is a very a very difficult job but like I said it is a very rewarding job.

Data Analysis at my Internship

Over the past seven months I have learned that data analysis is used at my internship to determine what the final decision will be. The data is mostly input from staff at Futures. I think that the principal makes the final decision based upon the data. The data is analyzed to help the principal to determine what the right decision will be. The types of decisions that are made at my internship are mostly all of the different types of decisions. The staff mostly uses consensus and a little of the democratic side. I have not seen the types of data that are used at my internship but I know that they some kind of data. I really don't know what else the data is used for but all I know is that the data is sometimes used by the principal. I am guessing that maybe the data that is collected the staff might use it. Some kinds of data are used to determine what after school program they would want their students to attend.

powerful hook

How would you like to intern at a school where you always feel welcomed and appreciated and with an amazing mentor? I know I would. That’s why you should intern at Futures Elementary School. I know you’re thinking that it’s an ordinary elementary school but actually it’s not because their grade levels are form kindergarten to third grade. Sound weird right. Well you should meet the incredible staffs that work their including my amazing mentor. Looking for an internship was really hard for me because I was looking at a school that would meet my high qualities. My internship is an amazing place to be where the day goes by fast and you would like to spend more time with the students. My internship is a very unique place to be because you are always finding yourself doing something instead of sitting all day long. It’s really rewarding to see how you teach a lesson and seeing that the student’s understand it. Working at school such this amazing will make you feel appreciated, welcomed, and you will see the growth within yourself and thing that you gained from such amazing experiences with the students

Oppression and Liberation

Well I have seen a lot of oppression going on in my society and I have felt as if I were in a negative environment. In my LTI I really don't see a lot of oppression going on. I can't really say if oppression occur at my LTI. At my internship I wouldn't say that my mentor and other staff don't get oppressed because they do. I would say that in terms of school I have seen students get oppressed by other students. Children oppress others by making fun at on another or by not treating each other the same way. I really don't mean that children can be oppressor it's just that they are children and some don't know whether they have done something good or something bad. Other than that I have not seen staff get oppressed by other staff. My internship if full of wonderful and amazing workers. It's a environment that I enjoy being there every moment, second, and hour. So many people support me as to being a teacher when I fully announce my self as a teacher. Going back to the students that oppress others, we can set up a meeting with all the 1st graders to talk about the issue of oppression. I wouldn't think that the idea would work because all of the students have different learning levels. Some students are high, some are in the middle, and some are very low. It's going to be hard to address the issue to 1st graders. I can't think of another way at this very moment so I don't know any other way. that I can tell 1st graders that it's bad to oppress each other.

Asking for advice

If I could ask my mentor for any advice I would ask her how I should I make my voice sound more engaging. That's what I'm struggling the most is to speak up and make my voice sound more fun. I really like the way my mentor talks because she always has a voice that makes them engaged. I have noticed that when she reads a book that she really gets their attention. When I read to them my voice sounds like I'm reading to myself. I want to have a voice that sounds so happy and that will make them engaged. Every time I read to them I feel that I'm not loud enough. I have talked to my mentor about the situation and she tells me that I am loud enough and I'm really good with reading them a book. I really take that and keep it in my head so that i can let myself know that I'm actually doing a good job. I always doubt my ability to read to any one because I let myself down for not trying. What I do is to practice reading to my 5 year old brother and then to my sister so that I can see how I really sound like. I apply what my mentor tells me an to reading her students a book.

Challenge

At my internship I would say that the hardest moments would be when I did my 1st lesson. I was really nervous on teaching my 1st lesson. I was actually trembling of nervousness. I was asking myself the day before of the lesson "what did I get myself into?" To say the truth I was kind of not looking forward to teach the lesson but at the same time I was looking forward my 1st lesson. The reason that I wasn't looking forward my 1st lesson was because I was really nervous. I thought to myself of the negative things that would happen during the lesson. I was not really so confident about how I would teach the first time because I was kind of scared to teach them wrong things and also having my mentor observe my teaching. On the other hand I was also looking forward to teach my 1st lesson because I was excited to teach my 1st lesson. I wanted to experience how to teach and what it takes a teacher to get prepared to do a lesson and what happens during a lesson. After that experience I really like what I do every Thursday and enjoy every single minute that I teach. I have talked to my mentor about my nervousness and she has also seen how I act when I nervous and how I look like. So she can pretty much tell when I nervous. She tells me that I have to calm down and relax. Her advice has really helped me to calm down and not be as nervous as I would usually get.

Behavioral Problem

At my internship there's a few behavioral problem in my mentor's classroom. There's two students that get into trouble almost everyday. One of the student is really sensitive and cries really often. Like if my mentor tells her to stop drawing because of the time she automatically starts to cry. In that situation she would cry because when it's her favorite thing to do it's very hard to get her to stop. I really understand how she's feels because I'm also sensitive when someone disrespects me verbally. Another student that gets into trouble is a very sweet child. She's constantly sent t0 the office. When I go to my internship I see her name always in yellow or red. When I talk to her she's is a sweet kid who likes to do work independently and does not like to be bothered. What I could to help them is to have a one-on-one conversation and figure out what would help them emotionally and sensitively. I would commit my self to help them when I go to my internship.

Acting Differently

Well people at my internship act really professional their language is so comprehensible whereas in my family we talk to each other in Spanish and it's sometimes hard to listen to one another. At my internship it's like I'm in a office full of people dressed professionally and speak with proper terms. I'm mean I couldn't be that way for one whole day because it's hard for me to act so professional. I really like the way that my mentor talks to first graders because I sometimes for get not to use words that first graders don't even know. At my house we talk really differently than what I talk at my internship. Anyways I would not last a whole day talking like a professional I would not really do a good job at it. Acting professional could help me in the future because it's going to help me be more prepared as to what kind of job is waiting for me. Acting professional would be totally out of my comfort zone. I'm not really used to being a person that acts and talks so professional. I try to follow my mentors foot steps but it's really hard for me. Maybe that knowledge that I capture would and will be useful for me in the future.

Skills That Would Make Me A Better Intern

When I think of the qualities that I need to know in order to be a better intern is to get rid of my shyness. I think that is my important goal through out my internship because in order to have confidence in teaching you need to be more open with students and in what you do .I have learned that little by little my shyness is fading of and hopefully I would be more open with my peer and staff at my internship. The skills that come to mind is to be more creative with putting up work of the students. Lately my mentor tells me to put up stuff but when I think on how to put them up, it makes me really think of how to do it right. My mentor on the other hand has a gift because she is so creative that's why her classroom is so creative and colorful. I want to be as creative as my mentor because when I think of it, I think to my self (if i become a teacher in the future) how are my students are going to seem as a fun teacher or a teacher that boring. I want to grow up and hopefully be a teacher in the future and enjoy my career as i do when I go to my internship. I want to have the qualities and skills that my mentor has because I really like the way she teaches.

Describing My Mentor Using Sensory Details

When I think of the values that makes my mentor good at her job is her creativity. She's as creative as Picasso. Her creativeness makes her room shine like a bright yellow sun. She has a wonderful personality that motivates her students to learn in an entertaining way but also in an educational way. The important quality that makes her good at what she does is that she has a lot of patience. She's as patient as an animal waiting to catch his prey. I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that she really helpful to her students and she helps them in a way that I can't describe how. Something that I'm proud of is doing my lessons every Thursday. Even though my second lesson didn't go as well as I thought it would go I'm still proud of my delivery. My first lesson went really well because I as a teacher felt that I gave a good delivery and they learned how plants grow.

A Wonderful Conversation

Yesterday I had like a 10 minute interview with my mentor's friend whom is also is a teacher at Futures Elementary School. Stepping out of my comfort zone didn't really go as bad as I thought it would go. I mean I new my mentor's friend but I never really talk to her that much, I say hi to her but not really talked to her for that long. Anyways I had a conversation with her and I found out that we both had something in common and that was that we were interested in science and teaching. She told me that she studied that subject for 2 years but them decided to become a teacher instead and yet have some sort of contact with science. I had a good time talking to her and I guess she did too. I told her if it's a tough job to be a teacher and she said absolutely . She said that she has to break her head of to think of materials that she would need to teach but yet find a way that will motivate them to do the work. She said that if she doesn't make the lesson fun that they will not be engaged and motivate them. I guess that my mentor and her think f way that will make the lesson fun but learn something at the same time.

An okay day

Today I wouldn’t say that I had an amazing day because I faced a challenge that by now I should have taken care of it. I am realizing that my shyness and my voice projection is the lowest quality of me. I did my lesson today and it went well but I had a challenge that I faced during my lesson. The challenge that I keep facing is when I read them a book, I feel that I’m doing a horrible job at it because my voice is not as enthusiastic and does not transmit positively to the students. I thought that I was not going to do a good job but I congratulate myself for doing the best that I can and should have done to benefit their lives. Anyway doing that lesson was a success not only did they learn something but they learned that I’m a teacher like Ms. Blake. Another success that happened to me was on Tuesday. I was working with a student one-on-one and the objective for me to transmit to the student was to lean how to write the numbers and say them out loud. When I was done testing him I realized that I had impacted his life in a way that would be beneficial to him. I was so ecstatic to find out that I was as important to their learning process. The one-on-one lesson went as smoothly as lotion.

Amazing Day

I just found out that I'm going to teach science every Tuesdays and Thursday. I am so excited but yet nervous on how I'm going to engage them to listen to me. Last lesson went well but I need to practice on asserting myself as a teacher. My mentor told me that I did a good job but she told me that I should also disciple n them so that they can understand that I'm also a teacher. Today was an okay day because I got to see haw difficult it is for them to refocus after the two week vacation.
ElD was as usual boring to them and could not focus. P.E went a lot worse, they had an extremely difficult time listening to directions . For that reason they spent all their P.E time sitting down and not enjoying the game that their coach was introducing them. I noticed that most of them had no idea what their coach was trying to tell them. My mentor got extremely mad at them and of course I understand how she feels like when they are not listening to simple directions. But other than that my day went well. I got to see another side of them when they are not focused.