Blog Entry 4

I participated in many preparation responsibilities during my time volunteering.  I would arrive during lunch so I helped the teacher, Ms. Cheney, get ready for her next lessons.  I also graded projects on important people to Utah's history. I found them very interesting, I'm from California so my school's history was different.  I also recorded the grades the students received on their math homework.  On my first day helping out I was very nervous about messing up and recording/grading something wrong, but the second time I volunteered I was more confident in my skills.

The week I was volunteering was the week of testing, so I didn't get a chance to see classroom testing.  When Ms. Cheney was talking to another teacher about the testing and how their overall class was doing. I realized that teachers actually care about how their students do and that the schools look at the scores of the teacher's students. When I was a student I never thought about how my scores on standardized testing affected my teachers.