Kristy Chimera
MED 300
Journal #8

	This week at Lafayette was fun! On Tuesday I taught our group by myself because Nichole was co-teaching with Kevin. Of course the day where multiple teachers would’ve been really nice, we didn’t have that. We were working with scatter plots. It took much longer than I thought it would to keep all of the students together while we went through how to graph a scatter plot and find the best fit line with the calculator. Dr. Cushman ended up coming over and helping to get students who were not on the right screen, on the right screen; it was just taking too long for me to check every students’ screen to make sure they were with the rest of the class. I’m not sure how the students feel about scatter plots. They seemed to understand the different correlations, and how to draw the best fit line, but I’m not sure they could do it on the calculator on a test. I tried to recap with the students after we finished the example, but they couldn’t remember the first couple steps; there was just too many. Hopefully after they finished the second example on Wednesday they remembered the steps a little better. Overall I think Tuesday went okay. I did not get through as much as I wanted to, but like I said it took forever to get through that example with the calculator.
	Thursday I co-taught with Kevin. I was a little nervous that the students wouldn’t participate or pay attention. Nichole and I got really lucky with our students; when they are there, they are awesome and participate almost all the time, which a few exceptions of course. When Jade walked in and saw that we were still working on the same packet that they were doing yesterday, she said she wasn’t do it and pushed it aside. I told her we were doing more with it and it would be fun because we get to use the calculator. Within the next minute or two, she was paying attention and participating. She even came up to the board twice. All of the students were paying attention and participating except for Danny. He would participate when I was standing over him, but whenever I walked away he just sat there doing nothing. I felt bad because we totally skipped the first part of the one packet we were doing. I saw that we only had 15 minutes left so I jumped right to the calculator part so we could get through it before it was time to collect the calculators. So when we finished the example we went back and did the first couple questions which were supposed to be done before we graphed the data. So the students didn’t get to predict if there was a correlation, but when they do example two on Monday they should be able to. I think Thursday went well. We actually got through more than I expected. I really think the students understand scatter plots. Hopefully they will do well on the test tomorrow.