First
For this activity, I hope to be a positive influence on WIMA student's academics. I am being a mentor kids, and I'm helping them improve their grades and become motivated. Some difficulties I ran into at first were that I was a little unconfident in myself when giving advice because this was a new thing for me, but I solved this by realizing the importance of being a confident teacher for the students. For the future, I hope to improve by finding a better way to be confident about my advice, because It'll make them more confident in their grades and time management once it's been improved.
Middle:
I was successful in achieving my goals. I am now a much more confident helper.. Some difficulties I ran into were not being able to connect with the students because they were a little shy, so I need to resolve this by being a more relatable, friendly person so they can benefit more.
Final:
During this activity, I helped mentor WIMA kids so they can improve in school. I interacted with others through finding out what they needed help with, engaging in discussion about their grades and time, and offering suggestions to improve. I was doing service and advanced objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. I was increasing my awareness of areas for growth in teaching, undertaking a new challenge as I had never participated in this type of volunteering before, I worked collaboratively with my mentees to reach as many people as possible, I engaged in issues of global importance by helping kids be motivated to do well in school, and considered ethical implications by considering what I was learning and helping people learn. I developed new ways to teach people, this is different because I was never told to help be a motivator before. I had hoped to help make an improvement on student's lives in school, and I was somewhat successful, I got to watch them become more confident and their grades picked up, and they were also more open to talking towards the end. Some difficulties I ran into were that some of my explanations were geared to high school and they were in middle school, and also the students were very shy. I learned that thinking creatively is helpful when explaining them. The students helped me think about my learning this time by helping me realize how to improve to engage them and figure out what they need. This activity benefitted others by helping them do better in school and improve their confidence in work. Next time to improve, I will try to be perceptive to their needs from the beginning. I can apply the collaboration and thinking outside the box I learned to every situation in life, from college to a job to a regular day. The knowledge of how to be flexible can be applied to life in general, when things don't go as planned. And learning to tutor is a valuable skill as well, as is being a relatable, friendly mentor.
Total: 3- Service
For this activity, I hope to be a positive influence on WIMA student's academics. I am being a mentor kids, and I'm helping them improve their grades and become motivated. Some difficulties I ran into at first were that I was a little unconfident in myself when giving advice because this was a new thing for me, but I solved this by realizing the importance of being a confident teacher for the students. For the future, I hope to improve by finding a better way to be confident about my advice, because It'll make them more confident in their grades and time management once it's been improved.
Middle:
I was successful in achieving my goals. I am now a much more confident helper.. Some difficulties I ran into were not being able to connect with the students because they were a little shy, so I need to resolve this by being a more relatable, friendly person so they can benefit more.
Final:
During this activity, I helped mentor WIMA kids so they can improve in school. I interacted with others through finding out what they needed help with, engaging in discussion about their grades and time, and offering suggestions to improve. I was doing service and advanced objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. I was increasing my awareness of areas for growth in teaching, undertaking a new challenge as I had never participated in this type of volunteering before, I worked collaboratively with my mentees to reach as many people as possible, I engaged in issues of global importance by helping kids be motivated to do well in school, and considered ethical implications by considering what I was learning and helping people learn. I developed new ways to teach people, this is different because I was never told to help be a motivator before. I had hoped to help make an improvement on student's lives in school, and I was somewhat successful, I got to watch them become more confident and their grades picked up, and they were also more open to talking towards the end. Some difficulties I ran into were that some of my explanations were geared to high school and they were in middle school, and also the students were very shy. I learned that thinking creatively is helpful when explaining them. The students helped me think about my learning this time by helping me realize how to improve to engage them and figure out what they need. This activity benefitted others by helping them do better in school and improve their confidence in work. Next time to improve, I will try to be perceptive to their needs from the beginning. I can apply the collaboration and thinking outside the box I learned to every situation in life, from college to a job to a regular day. The knowledge of how to be flexible can be applied to life in general, when things don't go as planned. And learning to tutor is a valuable skill as well, as is being a relatable, friendly mentor.
Total: 3- Service
