Week 10 Reflection

This past week was a lot of fun. Due to the success that we had in the advanced class with the probeware the previous week, Mr. Taylor and I decided to use them with the conceptual classes. I think that the conceptual classes may have even done better with it than the advanced class had. They seem to do well when they are given hands on tasks to complete. I was nervous because I wasn't sure that I could trust them with such expensive equipment, especially with some of the recent behavior we had, but they were all very responsible. I was very pleased with how it went and I think the students enjoyed it.

I ended the week by chaparoning a field trip to WVU. Mr. Skidmore took a group of students to Morgantown to participate in the annual pumpkin drop competition and asked me to tag along. I had fun but ran in to some challenges. The students get very excited about going to a college and want to know about college life. I had to deflect a lot of questions about my personal life and had to keep a close eye on their behavior. Overall, we didn't have any problems, other than the fact that none of the pumpkins survived the fall.