After getting over the initial shock of not having the teacher know we were coming, we went to the class next door where Matt was observing another teacher. It was a little strange because he didn't talk at all at first and the students were just "catching up on their projects." I walked around and most of them were either playing games or looking up other stuff on the internet.
After a while, he got up and started helping students. As he was helping, he called us over to watch what he was doing. He explained why he was doing everything and allowed us to help some students as well.
There was a lot of diversity in this classroom compared to the others. There were some people who didn't even speak english very well. They were the ones who didn't turn in most of their stuff. They were used to the metric system and were supposed to be doing an assignment to learn how to use an engineering scale. They kept getting the feet and inches mixed up. It was interesting to see how disinterested they were in the assignment because every time the teacher walked away, they forgot about the assignment and started looking up ringtones on the internet.
I'm not sure what I will do when I teach to help kids get interested. It's difficult to have everyone on the same page at the same time with varying skill levels.
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