Week Three: Supervision and Effectiveness

Describe your interaction and/or collaboration with your supervisor at your placement site. Do you have the direction and support you need to be effective?

What do you think it would mean to be 'effective' in your placement?

Week Two: Where and Who

Describe what it is like going to your placement site, and the environment you encounter while you're there. Where is your placement site, what do you have to do to get there, are there any special things you have to do to get into the site itself, how does the environment you're influence your time at the site?

Describe the population you work with; how old are they, where are they from (if you know), what are some of the defining characteristics about the people you encounter at your site, both supervisors and students?

First Week Encounters

What was one thing that you found yourself unprepared for during your first week at your placement site?

What steps can you take in subsequent weeks to better manage yourself in your placement site experience?

Welcome Letter

Hello Viewers!

Thank you for visiting our blog EDU in the Global City...Norton's View. This blog has been created as a platform for students from Michael Norton's section of Education in the Global City.

This is a safe space for students to reflect on their volunteer site experiences during this spring semester and how that provides them with a deeper understanding of their course work as it relates to the role and relationship of education & globalization.

Students will be volunteering at Benjamin Franklin High School Success Center, Tree House Books and various AVID sites in the School District of Philadelphia. Please respond to the reflection of the week by Friday of every week and then respond to a classmates reflection by the Sunday before class.

This will assist in establishing a consistent flow of dialouge between the class and hopefully spark food for thought that can be used in class discussions!