Date: December 15th, 2007
Time: from 9 to 11
And
From 11:30 to 1:30
I worked again in the coats department and it was as good as the first times that went there. It felt good to help someone that you know needs help.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Volunteering
Dates: Dec 8, 2007
Hours: from 9 to 11 and 11:30 to 1:30
Dates: Dec 11, 2007
Hours: from 6 to 8
I been volunteering with Jersey Care. Volunteers were needed to sort and bag coats that lately will be distributed to the Community of Food Bank in Hillside. While I was unwrapping the bags I so babies coats and I just couldn't help it to think how sad is that there are kids out there that are cold and don't have money to get a coat. It open my mind about how many coats I have and i don't even need that many. It was a good experience and I enjoyed working and knowing that I helped someone with just a few hours I helped to make some people that will appreciate.
Hours: from 9 to 11 and 11:30 to 1:30
Dates: Dec 11, 2007
Hours: from 6 to 8
I been volunteering with Jersey Care. Volunteers were needed to sort and bag coats that lately will be distributed to the Community of Food Bank in Hillside. While I was unwrapping the bags I so babies coats and I just couldn't help it to think how sad is that there are kids out there that are cold and don't have money to get a coat. It open my mind about how many coats I have and i don't even need that many. It was a good experience and I enjoyed working and knowing that I helped someone with just a few hours I helped to make some people that will appreciate.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Board education meeting
Date: 11/26/2007
Time: 7:30
Number of peoplepresent: 24/34 with the members
The attendance were called.
Right after the members and a few people went into a room to discuss some private topic, I think. Half of the people that were present in the class left after they found out that they topic was postpone. No material or handout was released.
The audio wasn’t very clear and I had a few problems to understand what they were saying.
The topic that was discussed was about the opening of a new restaurant and the owner was asking to make the building bigger, have more parking spaces, and have a double signs and on of them bigger.
Before the owner could explain her needs for the new restaurant, she needed to say her full name. The owner listed a few positive points about why every request she asked for, saying that this restaurant was going to be positive commercial
A question was raised from one of the members of the boar asking "Is one more restaurant need in this town?"
The main problems about making the restaurant bigger was that it was going to leave the shore next to it with no enough space.
The members don’t seems to be positive about opening on other restaurant as a need for the town and a positive thing.
It was asked if any one in the room had any questions. One of the members were asked what is the difference to open a pizzeria instead of a McDonald and subway that are open 24 hours? But the only problem that seems to stop them was that the way the building is designed there was going to be a drive-thru and a lot people would prefer to go to a drive-thru then a McDonald without it.
An other member said that he wish they could open a Mediterranean restaurant instead of an other pizzeria. The members also discussed the difference between a fast food and a restaurant and what make a fast food and what make a restaurant.
Also an other question was asked about if a double sign was needed and if yes why need to be bigger? The owner answered that the second sign need to be bigger so it was more visible from people that were driving. The problem that the members had it was that the building was pretty clean and neat and a big sign would maybe be too much so the members props to keep the sign a the sam size as the rest of the signs.
At the end of the meeting the members were asked to vote for each request.
The meeting was dismissed.
Time: 7:30
Number of peoplepresent: 24/34 with the members
The attendance were called.
Right after the members and a few people went into a room to discuss some private topic, I think. Half of the people that were present in the class left after they found out that they topic was postpone. No material or handout was released.
The audio wasn’t very clear and I had a few problems to understand what they were saying.
The topic that was discussed was about the opening of a new restaurant and the owner was asking to make the building bigger, have more parking spaces, and have a double signs and on of them bigger.
Before the owner could explain her needs for the new restaurant, she needed to say her full name. The owner listed a few positive points about why every request she asked for, saying that this restaurant was going to be positive commercial
A question was raised from one of the members of the boar asking "Is one more restaurant need in this town?"
The main problems about making the restaurant bigger was that it was going to leave the shore next to it with no enough space.
The members don’t seems to be positive about opening on other restaurant as a need for the town and a positive thing.
It was asked if any one in the room had any questions. One of the members were asked what is the difference to open a pizzeria instead of a McDonald and subway that are open 24 hours? But the only problem that seems to stop them was that the way the building is designed there was going to be a drive-thru and a lot people would prefer to go to a drive-thru then a McDonald without it.
An other member said that he wish they could open a Mediterranean restaurant instead of an other pizzeria. The members also discussed the difference between a fast food and a restaurant and what make a fast food and what make a restaurant.
Also an other question was asked about if a double sign was needed and if yes why need to be bigger? The owner answered that the second sign need to be bigger so it was more visible from people that were driving. The problem that the members had it was that the building was pretty clean and neat and a big sign would maybe be too much so the members props to keep the sign a the sam size as the rest of the signs.
At the end of the meeting the members were asked to vote for each request.
The meeting was dismissed.
Board meeting broadcast from Cabelvision
Board meeting: 12/05/2007
Time: 7:30
Broadcast on Cable vision Channel 77
The first thing that they did was to call the attendance of the members of the board. The fist topic that was discussed a street from West Paterson, memorial dive and the problem that the speed limit was 40 mph and for the resident that need to cross the street or come out from a driveway it’s very dangerous. The solution to this situation was:
Cross walk modified so people can walk and feel more safe.
Move the signal: so people will see it and slow down.
The attendance were called again. Before starting the next topic the members want to thank all the people that collaborate for the Christmas three lighting night and the Christmas movie night and the big participation from the rest of the town.
Also they announced that 8 people graduate from the fireman department.
The next topic was coming from the police department that need to get need recoding programs, some members explain that there would been a insignificant increase on th badged and they also discussed that the construct was about to expire and maybe they could look for something cheaper for last in the year so they could manage the badged.
The attendance were called again. An other topic was discussed. There were going to give 1.600 dollars to each student from West Paterson that need it to get their certificate.
Time: 7:30
Broadcast on Cable vision Channel 77
The first thing that they did was to call the attendance of the members of the board. The fist topic that was discussed a street from West Paterson, memorial dive and the problem that the speed limit was 40 mph and for the resident that need to cross the street or come out from a driveway it’s very dangerous. The solution to this situation was:
Cross walk modified so people can walk and feel more safe.
Move the signal: so people will see it and slow down.
The attendance were called again. Before starting the next topic the members want to thank all the people that collaborate for the Christmas three lighting night and the Christmas movie night and the big participation from the rest of the town.
Also they announced that 8 people graduate from the fireman department.
The next topic was coming from the police department that need to get need recoding programs, some members explain that there would been a insignificant increase on th badged and they also discussed that the construct was about to expire and maybe they could look for something cheaper for last in the year so they could manage the badged.
The attendance were called again. An other topic was discussed. There were going to give 1.600 dollars to each student from West Paterson that need it to get their certificate.
Observation At Art High-school Part 3
Date: December 06 2207
Time: from 11:15 to 12:45
Total time: 1 hours and 30 minutes
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: Senior
The all experience was extremely good and I felt welcome from day one by the high-school, the students and teacher Ranieri.
Time: from 11:15 to 12:45
Total time: 1 hours and 30 minutes
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: Senior
Professor Ranieri started the class asking if they had the book and discussed about the chapters before the test that was going to be assigned in a few weeks. They watch a DVD that I thought was pretty interesting way to get to learn and memorize a language. The DVD topics were divided into chapters as in the book. The topics that were covered by the class were:The regular verb, the irregular verb, The imperfect, the past imperfect.
While the form of the verb where show in the infinite way, the DVD explain how to conjugate a verb in different forms. The student were asking to pause with the image and copy what were the rules and the verbs. Also when there were a few tricky verb teacher Ranieri was making sure that she would say them at loud and the students would repeat, she also asked to pay attention to the spelling and the phonetics. They also got to make sentences with the same verbs that were present into the DVD. Each chapter on the DVD was a cartoon like and with each topic had a story was short and funny.
One student had a question about capitalizing word and they made a few examples and teacher Ranieri give a main rule about it so they won’t forget.
After the DVD we did a little quiz about the environment (I did too :) ), there were a few answer that you could picked and each answer had points and at the end you would sum your points and see what it would mean. At the end of the quiz, each student got to share their score and about their own life-style.
The students game homework to the teacher that was to create a little story and draw it. One of the student wasn’t great in drawing so the teacher decide to give him to do a little movie because he was very good with creating videos.
Before the class ended the class discussed the date for the exam and if there were any more question about the topics that were going to be covered on the class.
The all experience was extremely good and I felt welcome from day one by the high-school, the students and teacher Ranieri.
Observation At Art High-school Part 2
Date: November 28 2207
Time: from 9:00 to 12:30
Total time:3 hours and 30 minutes
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: (first class) Freshmen and sophomore
Pro-shop
Level: (second class) Senior
First class
At the begging of the class Teacher Ranieri explain that the students will have a test the following class and that they will get to do a review of the chapter and the students will get to ask questions about things that they have doubts about it. I got to see that Teacher Ranieri speaks French in regular situation with her students, when they came in, when they were leaving or when she wanted to ask question out side the scholar material. Also the students like to answer in French and ask how to say some words in French to just use it between them.
The students were asked to do a group exercise, the group as composed by two students, after each group was asked to come up by the teacher desk and read at loud what they did. In this exercises was asked to create together a dialogue and work with elements that students were already familiar with. I loved that all the students were doing like a little show full with expressions and using real material, I thought is was very creative. It was very cute and funny to see. Some kids thought outside of the box asking different question and using different material and vocabulary.
After this exercises teacher Ranieri asked to repeat after her a form of verb in present tense in French followed by a video in French. The video discussed about what French students do during the weekend. The video was no longer than 10 minutes. One the video ended teacher Ranieri asked to explain what they saw ans heard and get into particular vocabularies that were said during the video and at the end she asked to compare the French students to the American students and discuss the similar things that they do and have in common also the main differences.
Pro-shop it's discussed, between teachers, about scholar issues and curriculum related as in the past they discussed the attendance police. This pro-shop's discussion was based on the importance of open-ended questions. We first took a look of the Bloom's taxonomy and they described what is is and the importance of each element as knowledge, comprehension and application and so on until to get to the last point evaluation. The first question raised was if the position of synthesis and evaluation should be switched because synthesis that is a phase where the teacher will ask to create something with the material and knowledge giving to them should been the last step instead of the evaluation that would be more when students evaluate their actions and choices. Some people argued that these 2 phases (evaluation and synthesis) can even happens at the same time and other not. The main point at the end was to understand the importance of the taxonomy and to make sure that each step is done before the professor get to another point. For example do not give exercises if students didn't understand the rule because that would confuse them even more.
A sentence that I like to take with me from this pro-shop is that teacher does not teach what to think but how to think, so the teacher is a role of direction for the students, the teacher would assessing the level of thinking. After have discussed that taxonomy, we moved to read a paper about open-ended question, each person include the students (there were two more students with me at the pro-shop) would read three pageseveryone had different pages and after a few minutes we would have to reassume our pages and after that we would give a characteristic to what it is an open-ended question.
After the list was passed around some sheets with different type of questions, we need to identify if i was an open-ended question or not and to show two types of open-ended question based on the future program for December for each teacher.
Second class:
This class was composed of seven students and it was pretty quiet respect to the rest of the classes that I got to observe. Professor Ranieri distributes the book and asked to do a group exercises and after review orally the work done, in the exercise was asked to create a family situation and after they would interpreted.
I asked teacher Ranieri later if she thought that group exercise were better than working alone and she said that with group exercise they will get to work together and ask each other about things they have doubts about , so they would work better together as long it doesn’t create too much chatting, it seems to work fine in her classes.
Once done the exercise, they did some exercise orally together that discussed "must" connected with actions and vocabularies, and before the end of the class they got to read and found out more information about Switzerland, the language, the culture, the economic system and more.
Time: from 9:00 to 12:30
Total time:3 hours and 30 minutes
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: (first class) Freshmen and sophomore
Pro-shop
Level: (second class) Senior
First class
At the begging of the class Teacher Ranieri explain that the students will have a test the following class and that they will get to do a review of the chapter and the students will get to ask questions about things that they have doubts about it. I got to see that Teacher Ranieri speaks French in regular situation with her students, when they came in, when they were leaving or when she wanted to ask question out side the scholar material. Also the students like to answer in French and ask how to say some words in French to just use it between them.
The students were asked to do a group exercise, the group as composed by two students, after each group was asked to come up by the teacher desk and read at loud what they did. In this exercises was asked to create together a dialogue and work with elements that students were already familiar with. I loved that all the students were doing like a little show full with expressions and using real material, I thought is was very creative. It was very cute and funny to see. Some kids thought outside of the box asking different question and using different material and vocabulary.
After this exercises teacher Ranieri asked to repeat after her a form of verb in present tense in French followed by a video in French. The video discussed about what French students do during the weekend. The video was no longer than 10 minutes. One the video ended teacher Ranieri asked to explain what they saw ans heard and get into particular vocabularies that were said during the video and at the end she asked to compare the French students to the American students and discuss the similar things that they do and have in common also the main differences.
Pro-shop it's discussed, between teachers, about scholar issues and curriculum related as in the past they discussed the attendance police. This pro-shop's discussion was based on the importance of open-ended questions. We first took a look of the Bloom's taxonomy and they described what is is and the importance of each element as knowledge, comprehension and application and so on until to get to the last point evaluation. The first question raised was if the position of synthesis and evaluation should be switched because synthesis that is a phase where the teacher will ask to create something with the material and knowledge giving to them should been the last step instead of the evaluation that would be more when students evaluate their actions and choices. Some people argued that these 2 phases (evaluation and synthesis) can even happens at the same time and other not. The main point at the end was to understand the importance of the taxonomy and to make sure that each step is done before the professor get to another point. For example do not give exercises if students didn't understand the rule because that would confuse them even more.
A sentence that I like to take with me from this pro-shop is that teacher does not teach what to think but how to think, so the teacher is a role of direction for the students, the teacher would assessing the level of thinking. After have discussed that taxonomy, we moved to read a paper about open-ended question, each person include the students (there were two more students with me at the pro-shop) would read three pageseveryone had different pages and after a few minutes we would have to reassume our pages and after that we would give a characteristic to what it is an open-ended question.
After the list was passed around some sheets with different type of questions, we need to identify if i was an open-ended question or not and to show two types of open-ended question based on the future program for December for each teacher.
Second class:
This class was composed of seven students and it was pretty quiet respect to the rest of the classes that I got to observe. Professor Ranieri distributes the book and asked to do a group exercises and after review orally the work done, in the exercise was asked to create a family situation and after they would interpreted.
I asked teacher Ranieri later if she thought that group exercise were better than working alone and she said that with group exercise they will get to work together and ask each other about things they have doubts about , so they would work better together as long it doesn’t create too much chatting, it seems to work fine in her classes.
Once done the exercise, they did some exercise orally together that discussed "must" connected with actions and vocabularies, and before the end of the class they got to read and found out more information about Switzerland, the language, the culture, the economic system and more.
Observation At Art High-school Part 1
Date: November 27 2207
Time: from 1:40 to 2:40
Total time: 1 hour
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: Senior
When I got to the class, the class was discussing about the economic system that France has it, the Euro. Professor Ranieri got ready for every student a poster that showed every Euro bill, a few copies for each type of amount (example: €5, €10, €20, etc ..) Professor Ranienri discussed and described each bill with the class asking questions about it. After have analyzed the Euro bills, the class compared the Euro to the Dollar, looking for similarities and differences. Prof. Ranieri started talking about the Euro coins and said that she will have them ready for next class. She asked as homework to Goggle the word "Euro" and the value of the Euroo in the Dollar and bring this information to the next class.
After that Professor Ranieri asked to take the books and so a group exercise, every students groups by two and they started doing the group exercise. After a few minutes professor Ranieri went to the board and asked to check if the rest of the class got it right and if they didn't to fix the sentence. The exercise was based on grammatical and vocabularies that the class was familiar with already as "to have, to need, can I, scholar tools, numbers and colors" and in the exercise was asked to put all this elements together.
After this the class mover to the computer room, Professor Ranieri explain me that the classes is of more with games and activities with the computer. Professor Ranieri gave a disc to each student and they could either work by there selves or in groups of two. The CD material is related to the material already studied with the class. The language used in the CD was for the majority French and some English was spoken too. I had the chance to go around the class and take a look of the type of exercises were giving to the students and there were some exercise that were based on try to find the right description to the picture that is showed on the desktop. If the students gave the wrong answer the computer would give a little hint in English that would help them answer in the correct way.
There was also a puzzle to create and when you clicking in each piece sometimes could get a picture (in this case was scholar tools) and other times they would get a description on an object (a scholar tool). When the student found the description that would match the picture the two pieces turned and showed a part of the puzzle. The game ended when the puzzle is completed. One other type of game was a creation of a dialog where a voice from the computer would asked a question and the student needed to choose from 3 answer offered by the computer.
At the end of the class I asked Professor Ranieri about the project that I notice in the classroom, there were a lot of posters done by the students with the elements studies and drawing and description done in French. Some were about scholar tools, other about their selves and their hobbies; one was a little comic, food and animals. All the works were wonderful and so creative. Professor ranieri explain me that being in a school where is giving so much importance in art it's a good way to let the students do arts projects that would get them involved in it and they would learn more about French.
Time: from 1:40 to 2:40
Total time: 1 hour
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: Senior
When I got to the class, the class was discussing about the economic system that France has it, the Euro. Professor Ranieri got ready for every student a poster that showed every Euro bill, a few copies for each type of amount (example: €5, €10, €20, etc ..) Professor Ranienri discussed and described each bill with the class asking questions about it. After have analyzed the Euro bills, the class compared the Euro to the Dollar, looking for similarities and differences. Prof. Ranieri started talking about the Euro coins and said that she will have them ready for next class. She asked as homework to Goggle the word "Euro" and the value of the Euroo in the Dollar and bring this information to the next class.
After that Professor Ranieri asked to take the books and so a group exercise, every students groups by two and they started doing the group exercise. After a few minutes professor Ranieri went to the board and asked to check if the rest of the class got it right and if they didn't to fix the sentence. The exercise was based on grammatical and vocabularies that the class was familiar with already as "to have, to need, can I, scholar tools, numbers and colors" and in the exercise was asked to put all this elements together.
After this the class mover to the computer room, Professor Ranieri explain me that the classes is of more with games and activities with the computer. Professor Ranieri gave a disc to each student and they could either work by there selves or in groups of two. The CD material is related to the material already studied with the class. The language used in the CD was for the majority French and some English was spoken too. I had the chance to go around the class and take a look of the type of exercises were giving to the students and there were some exercise that were based on try to find the right description to the picture that is showed on the desktop. If the students gave the wrong answer the computer would give a little hint in English that would help them answer in the correct way.
There was also a puzzle to create and when you clicking in each piece sometimes could get a picture (in this case was scholar tools) and other times they would get a description on an object (a scholar tool). When the student found the description that would match the picture the two pieces turned and showed a part of the puzzle. The game ended when the puzzle is completed. One other type of game was a creation of a dialog where a voice from the computer would asked a question and the student needed to choose from 3 answer offered by the computer.
At the end of the class I asked Professor Ranieri about the project that I notice in the classroom, there were a lot of posters done by the students with the elements studies and drawing and description done in French. Some were about scholar tools, other about their selves and their hobbies; one was a little comic, food and animals. All the works were wonderful and so creative. Professor ranieri explain me that being in a school where is giving so much importance in art it's a good way to let the students do arts projects that would get them involved in it and they would learn more about French.
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