Jason Moon - PACT Reflection #2
A Rewarding Session
Sunita Gupta
11/04/2015
This was my eighth visit to OneInMath, and it was the end of the session or "semester." We volunteers let the students have fun and do the math at their own pace, not pushing them as hard as we were in the previous weeks. As I supervised the students, I was able to reflect on all the progress they had made since the beginning of the school year. The students were able to do material that they were struggling with in September with ease. Diego, my youngest student, was much more solid in his addition skills, and he was much better at focusing and getting his work done, a skill that he will continue to improve and value for his entire life. Kevin, another one of my students, told me how much fun he was having with the math at OneInMath and how much he liked having me as a volunteer. He even gave me some chocolate he brought from home. These little gestures of appreciation made me feel very satisfied with the effort I had invested into helping the students develop their early math skills.
Through my time at OneInMath, I learned that teaching young children is a very tiring yet rewarding experience. Previous to my involvement with the program, I had very little patience around younger kids, and I was not very fond of teaching. These feelings were drastically changed by the time I finished the session at OneInMath. Just seeing the appreciation that the students had for the extra attention that I gave them, which they probably couldn't experience at their schools, made me feel like I was truly making a difference, even if it was just to five kids. I hope to continue teaching younger students in the future.
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