If I Could Change One Thing...
If I could change one thing about the time I spent at my internship it would be to have done more in the beginning. In the first couple of weeks I didn’t do much. Before I started teaching lessons there was always a lot of down time, especially since I stayed until three o’clock every day. The only things I really did were walk around the room to answer individual questions and sit and observe the class. The observing was beneficial, but not nearly as much as doing something productive would have been. I was really starting to get bored and not enjoying my time there as much as I should have. I think Mrs. Darwin started to see that after a few weeks because she would always encourage me to walk around the room and watch them do their work, which I would, but you can only walk around the room so many times before it starts to get ridiculous. I wish I would have asked Mrs. Darwin if I could have started do things with the class earlier. Not necessarily teaching, but just being involved more. Looking back at my time there, I really loved it. I just would have enjoyed my entire time there that much more if I would have been more involved in the beginning. I don’t blame it on Mrs. Darwin. If anybody, I blame it on myself for not asking her to do something earlier. However, it turned out not to be that big of a deal because within a week of me getting bored Mrs. Darwin asked me to teach my first lesson. It was like she was reading my mind.