Project- Week 4 Tommy

The end of last week was by far my favorite and awesome to say the least! I was able to interact the most with the students. The sixth graders did the actual economics project and I enjoyed watching the once work in progress turn out to be a success. Each group was able to sell their item (with fake money of course) within two sessions. At the end of the session, the classes came together and reflected on the day, coming up with better strategies to increase the profits made. During this period, I was in Mr. Cramer's class and I was able to hold my first class discussion. Halfway as a joke on me and the other because it was very beneficial. Mr. Cramer gave me his most rowdy class. I learned a lot from this incident in many ways, most especially how to control a productive classroom. Another favorite part of the economics project was the food I was able to eat and hearing all the students scream out, "Mr. Betsa, over here, try this." I really enjoyed this whole entire experience and felt not only was it a great thing for the students, but also for me. I was also able to assist in teaching Mrs. Zampini's seventh grade honors math class. They were going over "Solving for Y". It was difficult at first to find what level of understanding they were at. As soon as I was able to do that, I found ways to steadily increase their understanding. My favorite part was when I put a tricky question on the board and they all moaned at first. But as I went over it with them slowly and made them figure it out, they all were enthusiastic and felt achievement.