Learn and Serve #6: 11/24

On tuesday i went to my learn and serve placement at Niagara Catholic High School. I had previously not gone the two weeks before because the teacher took a personal day and on the other i had a game. I was still able to help the students though and found that the students are getting more used to me being in the classroom and are looking more for me to help them with classwork. The students had mostly classwork on tuesday so i had little to actually observe other than the fact that they had classwork so i assisted them in learning the material and helping them if they were stuck. They learned long division today. It wasn't really difficult for most of them but some of them had a difficult time realizing how to multiple whole equations and such. It was confusing and many needed help so i helped some while the teacher helped others.
I thought this was a good example of curriculum compacting (p.310). She used the curiculum to pick out things that students may have a difficult time with to challenge them. Nothing that isn't in the curiculum but challenging enough to make them apply what they've learned in situations.




Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M., Anastaslow, N. (2009). Educating Exceptional Children (12th ed.). Kentucky: Cengage Learning. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://college.cengage.com/education/kirk/educating/12e/resources/video_cases.html