Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Questions 3 and 4

Mr. Dillan:

Difficulties:
-Trying to work with companies who prepare the food wrong (a.k.a. leaving pin bones in "pin less" salmon).
-Making food for the "little guys" that they will eat and enjoy (not too spicy, using basic things like salt, lemon, and chicken stock for flavors, creating dipping sauces that they can use to make foods they may not like more appealing).
-Trying to sneak vegetables into basic foods that the small ones have eaten before.
-Working alone up until recently, because a lot of preparation has to be done beforehand. 
-Getting up early because he is not a morning person.

Fulfilling:
-Having access to his own kitchen that is much bigger than those he has had in the past.
-The little kids come in and visit him often. 
-He gets to butcher the meat instead of having to hand it off to the head chef, as would happen in a normal kitchen. 
-Organizing is up to him alone so he knows where everything is without thinking twice. 
-Getting to teach awesome On-the-Job-Training students!

Mr. Schmidt:

Difficulties:
-The kids are very young and are still learning to listen properly. 
-Having students who have so much to offer but can't be indulged because of certain lesson plans. 
-The second period class specifically is so big (25 kids), that it is nearly impossible to make them all pay attention at the same time. 
-Not being able to indulge some of the students with activities they would prefer because if you give in once, they will start expecting that from them. 
-Dealing with students who fake injuries to get out of class, and trying to determine who is being honest about it. 

Fulfilling:
-Getting to play everyday and watching the kids genuinely enjoying themselves. 
-Teaching important skills such as teamwork, encouragement, and respect. 
-Being able to open new doors to skills they didn't know they had (juggling). 
-Journeying along side kids through triumphs and defeats, picking them up when they don't have a good day and encouraging them to continue playing, or succeeding with them when they achieve something they had been so against not three days earlier. 

Mr. Fielding

Difficulties: 
-Trying to teach people who aren't willing to learn.
-When students do not do their homework, because then they are mentally behind the rest of the class and generally cause a bigger gap between students. 
-Keeping the classroom orderly. 
-Introducing concepts to students that, according to state standards, should've been taught years early, in addition to the concepts that have to be taught in their freshman year of high school (for example, semicolons). 

Fulfilling:
-Seeing the students progress throughout the year, and watching them come to the understand of what is expected of them. 
-Seeing students push themselves beyond what they thought they were capable of. 
-Reading papers written by students who may not be top of the class, and enjoying them. 


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