Today was my last day an emotional day full of different emotions. Today I observed my personal fitness class where we played basketball for the whole period. Today was like any other day a free day and no structure.
I have learned through the weeks at Akins how important structure is and without the structure in place the students run the class and that is what I observe everyday that I visited the class. I remember telling the professors and fellow interns about the class and how bad the class was structure wise. When I was speaking to the class I felt the class as a whole did not believe me until I had a different intern join me in the class and face exactly what I was talking. She could not understand why we just walked laps and played basketball and did no book work to improve learning. The same question I asked myself everyday that I observed the class. The only thing I could get from this experience is not to coach or teach my class in fashion he did. Even though there were times I saw a positive learning environment the negatives on how the class was ran out weighed the positives. Some of the positives were taking several students to the library to help them with their study guide which was by far the most learning that was provided. But once again that only happened once because there were so many negatives.
As the day concluded I noticed the students want to learn and today was one of those days I did not want to leave knowing I can not make a difference any more because I’m going to leave. I had several students ask me about college, which meant a lot to me knowing I had something to do with that. As I left and wish the students luck in their feature endeavors I sensed a since of sadness. The students knew that I cared about them even though it was developed in a short period of time. The time spent with the students is a moment I will never forget.
