I thought that my work as an intern was extremely meaningful. I taught many children fundamentals about reading and math. The things that I taught these children are things that they will use for the rest of there lives. One thing that my internship project taught me is that it is much harder to teach children things than I thought. Things like math are easier because there is only one right answer, but language arts is harder. Nevertheless, I learned how to do it with a lot of repetition. My project began as an idea to help improve a girl's writing and the final product is cool to see. I don't have pictures right now, but her writing before is gibberish and after my help she gets a lot better.
A characteristic that I saw in my coworkers that I would like to apply to myself is being more assertive. I have always been the kind of person who is afraid to say no to people and try to please everyone, which is a quality about myself that I have always disliked. I noticed that the teachers tell the kids no or discipline them if the do something bad all the time and the kids don't dislike the teachers anymore for it. I would really like to apply this to my life and become more comfortable with saying "no." Honestly, internship didn't change my view of life after high school very much. Maybe it is because my schedule didn't change very much; I get up at about the same time, I am working/going to school at the same hours, and I am at another school (just teaching instead of learning.) But life seemed fairly the same, you work and then go home, do some work at home, rince and repeat.
A characteristic that I saw in my coworkers that I would like to apply to myself is being more assertive. I have always been the kind of person who is afraid to say no to people and try to please everyone, which is a quality about myself that I have always disliked. I noticed that the teachers tell the kids no or discipline them if the do something bad all the time and the kids don't dislike the teachers anymore for it. I would really like to apply this to my life and become more comfortable with saying "no." Honestly, internship didn't change my view of life after high school very much. Maybe it is because my schedule didn't change very much; I get up at about the same time, I am working/going to school at the same hours, and I am at another school (just teaching instead of learning.) But life seemed fairly the same, you work and then go home, do some work at home, rince and repeat.