Time Flies.

Hey all-

Hope everyone is getting ready for finals and for summer! Last week was very exciting, we found out our co-leaders. I'm very excited for everyone, we have some good pairings. We also played a game where we had to guess famous partners by how the others were acting. My team won...of course. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO...Lauren? haha. Can't wait to see everyone for our last class until fall!

See you Wednesday!

It's about that time.

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Last week we spent time reviewing how we felt about taking over our part of the class. I can honestly say that I am ready, we have grown a lot over the semester. We have an awesome group and every single one of us will be great. I'm looking forward to finding out who we are paired with and the students we will have under us. This semester flew by. I can't believe I'll be a junior next year. Can't wait to see you all Wednesday!

Taylor

Resources, Our Savior

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Hope everyone is ready for VEISHEA! Last weeks class was about how we could react in a given situation based on the resources around campus. This class was very helpful to me because, not only did it prepare me more for what I might encounter as a peer mentor, but also helped me learn about some cool resources I didn't even know existed. That is going to be a handy list to have. Again, being prepared for anything, and knowing that we have help in a situation really takes off some pressure. If it's something you don't know we have a great supporting cast as well as a campus resource that we could refer them to if need be.

See you Wednesday!

There's no 'I' in team...

Hey everyone-

Another fantastic class, the weather was absolutely perfect as well. We had a fun little activity right at the beginning of class, which turned out to be very difficult, but fun. This just goes to show that teamwork and plenty of time to plan are going to be key to the success of the class this fall. It is hard to just go into something without a direction and a purpose.

This ties together with everything we've been working towards, preparation, and being aware of what we want to do. I can see that we are all growing and I look forward to the rest of the semester with everyone!

See you Wednesday!

LPS/fun day

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This past week in class we discussed our Lesson Planning Structures and some of the things that we can do as a class to be more effective. Though we didn't get to cover every section during class, I look forward to returning to the topic. Having an effective learning plan is going to make us more professional, believable, and reliable to the students.

We also had our scavenger hunt that lead us to Perfect Games for some bowling and arcade games. I wasn't sure what we had in store for us, but I had a lot of fun. We have a great group and we all get along great! I'm looking forward to more adventures with everyone and having fun with excellent friends and leaders!

See you all Wednesday!

Hmmmmm...WWDD. (What would Debra do.)

Hey all-

Our last class may have been one of my favorites so far. We had a discussion about situations that may arise and how as a group, we would deal with them. You never know what could come up, but having an idea of the protocol could be huge in how we handle the situation. I'm glad to see that as a group we are on the same page for the most part about how we are going to conduct our classes and deal with 'problems.' As much as I want next year to go smoothly for everybody, issues do come up, and I'm glad we are getting a jump on the situation.

Have a good Break!!

ISCORE

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Friday we all attended ISCORE, Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity. I attended two sessions, the presentation on Latinos/as in America, and the 'What are you'?, presentation. Both presentations were awesome. The session on Latinos/as in America focused on the inequality and some of the hate towards this massive group of people. They also hit on how the media in multiple cases was stretching the truth to give immigrants a worse name. The second focused on the fact that many people are mixed race and may associate with more than one race, but they are often asked to pick one. They did a survey that I thought was pretty neat and you could take a lot from where they asked people to classify 6 people just off of appearance. They all said they were each only of one race, which may be due to the fact that we are used to picking only one. I just thought it was interesting to go and here some points of view that we might now otherwise get all the time. ISCORE was a great success!