Assessment 1

Today was my first official day working during Study Hall at my assessment location that happens to be at Pine Point School. I was not expecting my experience to be as helpful to Mrs. Davis, Mr. Delapp and to the students as it was. Today, I started out by learning how to set up the nets for the badminton tournaments that I would be helping lead, and how to check in different students with abbreviations for different variations such as if they are prepared, absent, or late. I spent most of my time assisting Sierra, Dean and Chris. Strangely enough, as I was checking around the stations, one student took off his shoes and placed them under the net. I said to the student that it is a rule that you must be wearing shoes in the gym unless they are cleats, and that he had to put them back on. At first he shrugged my comment off, but then I enforced my point by saying that they could not continue playing until he put his shoes back on, which, after about one minute, he decided that I was serious about what I had just said. Some students often found themselves arguing over the score, which was where I was able to calm them down and tell them what team had how many points. This was the first obstacle that I had overcome, although it was not such a large problem. I was satisfied with this visit, and I felt proud when all of the students left smiling. Hopefully the next class will be even better, because I know what to expect and how to handle the various situations that will occur. Finally, I tallied everyone’s court positions and I packed up the rackets and birdies, and rolled the nets back into place until next Tuesday.