Blog 10 : Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentor-ship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)
• What I'm doing at my mentor-ship is observing what the teacher does and also helping the students complete their work. I help them finish their work by doing hand-over-hand in order to trace the worksheet and to show them how to complete and how to do the worksheet. I also clean the classroom when the students are out and I prepare their backpacks with take home notes for their parents and preparing them to go home. Yes, I'm surround by lots of experts. There are four teacher aids in the classroom alone and there are other teachers and staff that are experts in what they do as well. 
2. How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  
• I found my mentor because she's my little brother's teacher. I didn't really have to convince her because she already me and knew how interested I was in the topic and was always happy to answer any questions that I may have and always happy when I went over to visit and help her around the classroom and students. 
3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentor-ship/with this person?
• My comfort level is very strong with my mentor only because I would always volunteering before I actually asked her to become my mentor. We kinda already knew on another because of my brother. This relates to the time that I've spent with my mentor because when I go to do my mentor-ship hours I already feel apart of the staff because I was and still am there so often, so that I can have a normal everyday conversation with any staff person and even some students. 
4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?
• A lot things went well in my interview. My mentor gave me so much information that I can use for research and the conversation would never have an awkward pause or moment. I think it went well because we already somewhat know one another so it was easy to have a conversation with one another. I need to improve with more interesting and more in depth questions. I know this because I feel like I could have gotten more information out of my mentor. I will go about it by starting to develop good questions as I go along when doing my research. Also I can ask other staff members for more information on things that I may be researching on.