Nichole Oswald								Journal 13
MED300							Dates: 12/4/07 & 12/6/07
	This was my last week at Lafayette.  It's bittersweet because I am moving on, but I'm going to miss the students.  We covered dividing monomials and scientific notation in class.  The dividing monomials lesson went fairly well.  The students grasped both methods of dividing, which was great.  We had the students come up to the board to do some of the problems as well as answering questions throughout the class.    
	The scientific notation lesson went well too.  All of the students participated in class the entire time.  We ended our time at Lafayette on a high note.  It was great to see all of the students answering questions, and coming up to the board.  How the students responded to the lesson today, is how I would like to remember my experience at Lafayette.  The lessons go so much smoother when the students are responding to questions, volunteering to read or solve the problems.  It makes for a more enjoyable class period for both myself and the students. 
	I think that today's lesson went very well because it contained many essential elements.  I asked the students questions that assessed their understanding of the material.  I also had the students actively engaged in the lesson during the majority of the lesson.  I try not to spend to much time lecturing.  However, sometimes I have to do some lecturing in order to help the students clear up any misconceptions that they may have.  Today, the students had some difficulties with how many spaces to move the decimal when going from standard form to scientific notation.  Therefore, I had to give a more in depth explanation of what to do.