Mentorship Work 5

These last two Fridays were the most recent days that I went to work with my mentor. I went to the same place as usual for Fridays, Los Cerritos. The first of the two (2/21) was when my mentor couldn't make it to class, so I subbed in for his combined class from 2 to 2:40 pm. I knew that I would be subbing a week prior, so after confirming it with my mentor and the school office, I began to research how I would plan the days activities. I also reviewed what my mwntor wanted to have done in class, so i spent some time planning how the class would run. I arrived at the school at around 1:30 to set up the 40 chairs that were needed to fit the combined class. After I set up the chairs and music stands, I read through the note and e-mail my mentor left me with, and I flipped through the method book that would be used for the lesson. After studying the music scores, the kids came in at around 2:00. From there I proceeded to take them through a routine warm up that their regular teacher does, and then I conducted them through the list of songs given to me. The song playing took up the majority of class, with some work on things like performance standards and volume control. That conculded my work for that day. The second Friday (3/7) was a normal day with my mentor teaching and me assisting.

This puts me at 15 hours of work under my mentor,and I have done 2 hours of prep work on my own, putting me at 18 hours total, and 7 to go to meet the requirement.