Post-9 Final Reflection

1. Think back to the beginning of internship. What were your goals? Did you achieve these goals?

My goals were to get enough hours to pass internship class and to have experience about teaching to see if I will like it and I can try to pursue that career because I am not sure what I want to do. I achieve my internship goals, after internship finish I was missing six hours but I keep working in my school helping Ms.Sherien, Mr.Carlos and some of my teachers and I get the hours that I was missing, I had a great experience as teacher assistant this will definitely help me in the future if I will pursue the teacher career.

2. What are the most important ideas or skills you’ve learned in the last 10 weeks? I learned to be more organize and that I have to always respect the others.

3. What has having a relationship with a professional employee such as your supervisor/mentor meant to your personal development? How have you have grown as a student? Having a relationship with a professional supervisor helps my personal development a lot because she gave me good advice and seen her working and expressing herself taught me more about the adults lives. Thanks to my internship I have grown more as a student because I was working as a teacher assistant and is not easy to teach now I have a different look about teacher.

4. What were the highlights (memorable moments) of your internship experience? The memorable moments of my internship is how nice the students, the teacher and the school staff were with me, other highlights were the happy faces of the students, the method that my mentor taught and the different programs that the students were in.

5. What are your thoughts about jobs, careers, or the professional world in general as a result of having spent 125 hours working in it? I think that the professional world is very difficult but I like it.

6. After high school, what do you want to pursue for a career? Are you more or less interested in college as a result of your internship? After high school the career that I want to pursue is to be a teacher, after internship I am more interesting in college. Before internship I was not sure what I wanted to be but after the internship experiences that I had I want to be a teacher.

7. What were your biggest challenges to overcome and how did you handle those challenges? My biggest challenge was in the beginning of internship because when I talked to my mentor I get nervous and I didn’t have a good communication with her at the beginning but I saw how nice person she was and I start to believe in my self and I get confidence and I was not nervous anymore when I talked to her.

8. If you were to start a brand new internship next week, what are at least two things you would do differently? I would be more confident in the first week and believe more in me because in my last internship I was nervous in the first week and then I became more confident after I saw how nice the people were there another thing that I would do different is to have more conversation with the mentor to know her/him better.

9. Think of two to three pieces of advice you could offer to a new intern at your site. I will tell them to be persistent/patient with the students and if they don't like to do something they should tell the supervisor and they will not ask you to do it anymore.

10. What will you miss about your internship? I will miss the kids they were very nice with me, I will miss my mentor, the classes, the internship side, I will miss everybody and everything at that school and I also will miss the time that I had to left school early to go to the internship side.

Post-8 Resume

Francisco Batista

377 Montgomery Street Brooklyn, NY 11225

(718) 774-8074 fbatistaperez@inths.org

Education:

International High School at Lafayette

Brooklyn, NY

Expected Graduation: 2013

GPA: 3.5

Experience:

            Teacher’s Assistant                                                                 Spring 2012

 The Academy of Talented Scholar, Brooklyn, N.Y

·      Organized students project in to portfolio binders

·      Supervised and assist students with returning books to the library

·      Organize assignments and other important papers in to students mailbox

Activities:

iMentor                                                                                   10/2011-present

International High School at Lafayette

·       Participate in technology-based mentoring program for high school students

·       Develop an ongoing relationship with an adult volunteer mentor via weekly               emails and regular face –to-face meetings

College Now Writing Course,                                                 9/2011-present

            Kingsborough Community College

Lafayette Educational Complex Baseball Team                     3/2010-present

Awards:

International High School at Lafayette Awards  

·      Achievement in Drama Class                                                      6/2011

·      Achievement in Physical Education                                            6/2011 

Special Skills:

            ·       Highly organized

·       Talented baseball player

·       Able to translate from Spanish to English

Languages:

Fluent in Spanish

References available upon request 

Post-7 Thank You Letter

Dear Ms. Kreisman

I want to say thank you for letting me be with your class. You are an excellent teacher and I admire your teaching methods. I learned many useful skills from you. For example, you taught me how to be more organized. This skill and the whole experience of working in your classroom will definitely help me with my goal of becoming a teacher.

I miss the class and the kids but I am happy because I have good memories from all of you. Thank you for everything Ms. Kreisman.

Sincerely,

Francisco Batista

 Post-6 Photo Essay

This is my internship side "The Academy of talented Scholar"(TAOTS), this is an elementary school located at 50 Avenue P in Brooklyn, this school have a lot of diversity because most of the students parents are immigrants and also some of the students and the majority of them speak two or more languages.

This is the 3rd grade class that I was working in my internship side,the students are all very friendly,I had a very good experience with them,the person in the middle is the teacher that I was working with she taught me a lot of useful skills, the other person in the side is a teacher she also helps the teacher that I was working with, I will never forget them.

She is Nilda Sepulveda she is the school secretary, she almost always sign the internship hours papers, she is very kind and respectful and she also speak Spanish when I didn't understand something in english she helped me.

I with my friends after we finished our duties in the office where the secretary sign our papers, they almost always have something to eat there and they always offer to us.

Post 5-New Vocabulary

1.Wage: Salario
A payment to a worker.
The average wage for this job is $1,000.

2.Novice:Principiante
Someone new in something.
I am a novice playing handball I need help.

3.Proactive:Proactivo
Tending to initiate change rather than reacting to events.
Proactive in this field rather than be dragged along.

4.Reliable:Seguro or De confianza
Able to be trusted.
I reliable in Louis driving the car.

5.Epitome: Personificacion
A summary of a written work.
The British monarchy itself is the epitome of tradition.

6.Initiative: Iniciativa
To go first.
I took the initiative doing my group work.

7. Harassment: Acoso
To annoy persistently.
Louis was harassing me.

8. Criticism: Critica
A Judgment or a critical comment.
Some people hate criticism.

9.Evaluate: Evaluar
To examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate what you have found.

10.Fugacious: Fugaz
Lasting a short time.
Though fugacious, our time together was very fun.

11.Menagerie: Casa de fieras
A place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition.
Menagerie of cats.

12.Gazette: Gaceta
News paper.
I want to read the gazette.

13.Skulk: Esconderse
to move in a stealthy or furtive manner.
Skulking in the back ground, as can be seen in the photo.

14.Recalcitrant: Recalcitrante
Resistant.
Pedro is very recalcitrant.

15.Pacify:Pacificar
To restore to a tranquil state.
Pacify the people.

Post 4 - Midpoint Reflection

The primary mission of the organization that I work for is to give a good education to the kids, to teach them everything that is posible to prepare them for High School. Some consequences if my organization didn't exist anymore is that there will be a lot of kids that won't have a good education and good knowledge about a lot of good things.

The culture about my internship workplace environment is similar to IHSL's school environment because the kid parents and some of them are from different countries and they speak 2 or more language like the students at IHSL. Since beginning internship a have improve my English a lot because I work in a school and they always speak in English and they have a lot of pictures with descriptions, and they read a lot of books and stories and I listen at it and I improve my listening skill.

The internship schedule has affect me because I have to leave school at 12pm and I have to miss 30 minute of class and I am not getting like all of the information in those classes and I feel like I am behind of the others students.And when I get home I am very tired and I have homework to do and I am not concentrating very well to do the homework because I am very tired. During the five weeks of internship left I want to get all of the hours requires, and I want to improve my communication skill.

Post-3 Vocabulary

Words that I hear at my internship site.

Assimilate= to adapt

Conjecture= a guess

Conjoin= to unite

Dissimilar= different

Diurnal= Daily

Nil= nothing