Nichole Oswald							10/11/07
MED308w/ Journal 5					   Dates:  10/09 & 10/11

	This week at Lafayette we introduced function notation.  The students really seemed to catch on to what we were doing.  Therefore we moved at a faster pace than usual.  Our group’s attendance has not been very good lately, due to numerous suspensions.  Therefore it is somewhat difficult to stay on track from day to day.  All of the lessons build off each other, making it very difficult to keep the class together when some of the students weren’t there for the previous lesson.  At times I find it difficult to maintain a balance between trying to catch up the students who are behind, while continuing to teach the students who have been there all along new material.
	Once again our lessons are mainly based around student participation.  But this is sometimes hard to do, when trying to evaluate all of the students’ progress.  At times, it is difficult because it is the same students answering the questions.  Therefore I try to switch up who is answering the questions.  I also walk around to make sure that all of the students are keeping up with the work and are following along.  Not all students like to participate a lot in class, but they still know what is going on and how to do the work.  When it comes down to it, I would like everyone in the group to participate all the time, but it is more important to me that the students understand the material.