Half way there

I have been so busy between school, my job and these 100 hours of observation. The good news is I am half way there! I have gotten some great feedback from everyone at the school. One youth who I suspect is on probation (he wears some sort of device around his ankle) just came to our school and has had some real problems in math. He isn't dumb though and I have worked with him one on one and seen potential. The teacher I am observing said that he came right up to her first thing in the morning with all his homework completed. She would have never expected this! She said "I wish we had the money, we would hire you here immediately". Pretty cool - I should get a good reference from her. I have been playing a much more proactive role in the classroom beyond that of an observer. I designed an interactive Internet activity which the kids loved and I start out every class with a few jokes or riddles (usually in math class I do jokes related to math). We also look at poems that they have written and the other day we looked at funny newspaper headlines as part of their English lesson (example: "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms"). Have to go now but will post more latter.