Haley's Site

After going into a classroom visit for the first time, I noticed that it was not as intimating as I was expecting. I learned that a lot of students do not speak up for help, so you need to initiate the help for them. I thought it was challenging to find the line of when to help them as a student and the teacher innating that help. As the visit went along, I got more comfortable with helping students out and I feel like I should have helped more students with the initial log in process. I learned that a lot of students would go onto the main site to sign in instead of their site which confused them with logging in. I also noticed that a lot of students had a message pop up saying they are locked out of their account for x amount of time, but then I realized that it was because they were trying to login from the main site and not their personal site. Another common problem was that a lot of students were putting two e’s in the search engine to look for their site as well. Next time I could work on making sure everyone is signed in before the presentation gets rolling because I did not notice there were a few students not logged in at that time. Once I start getting more comfortable with working with a group of people, I will defiantly be able to keep checking in with everyone to make sure people in the class are not falling begin.

After the tutor training back in August I learned that you must come up with a plan before the student’s appointment. Many students might be nervous or flustered when coming in especially with working with technology, so you have to have patients with them. Also, with the technology aspect you have to make sure you are not hands on with the student’s computer because you want to teach them how to use WordPress. Technology can be a platform that many people want you to do and not show so learning how to guide students through this is very important so they can complete their profile on their own time as well. I think it is also important to come up with a general bassline plan before having an appointment with a student because you need to make sure you are being affective with the time and teaching the students certain vocabulary for WordPress.