Nichole Oswald										Journal 11
MED300											Date: 11/20/07
	
	It was a short week at Lafayette.  Today I was with Kevin's group.  It went well, we did the lesson on solving systems of equations with substitution.  It took a while for the the students to understand that we had to substitute an expression in for a variable.  I was working with one student for a while on this because he wanted to leave the variable in the equation and also put the expression in.  Finally, he understood it and working through the rest of the question went a lot smoother.  I was actually very happy with how this student worked through the question.  Even though he was struggling, he didn't become discouraged or give up.  I worked with him until he understood what to do.  When I'm teaching I'm very animated and somewhat loud.  It seems to be working though.  When I was working with this student he was laughing as well as learning.  He actually seemed to be having fun while doing math.  I didn't however notice that Mr. Koestler was listening to and when I was done he started laughing at me, but he did give me two thumbs up so I must have did something right!  We worked through the first example as a group and then the second example they did independently.  Once they completed the second example, we had them come up to the board and work through each step explaining what they did.  We were able to complete the entire lesson.  We assigned homework, hopefully they will complete it.