First day on the job!

Hello and welcome!

Today is officially the first day of my senior project. I am very excited to begin working on my research. For those of you who are wondering about my project, I plan on examining the effectiveness of different teaching methodologies. I will research several major methods, and I will teach classes at my school using those methods. Towards the end of class, I will hand out a short quiz on the lesson, and grade it as data collection. Hopefully, I will have sufficient data at the end of this project that I will be able to arrive at a conclusion regarding my investigation.

 I am especially excited about working with my in school adviser. Mr. Bayer, my adviser, has allowed me to use his students as the majority of my test subjects. During my research, I hope to not only investigate my experiment, but also teaching in general. What attracted me to this project was my interest in teaching. While performing this experiment, I will also function as Mr. Bayer's teaching assistant in order to understand more about being a teacher in a general sense. Additionally, I will be working with Mr. Stefano Coaloa, my community adviser from Northern Arizona University. He will also help me better understand how to execute my experiments with the students. I am very happy to have so many resources available to me during this project.

 Today I observed Mr. Bayer teaching his AP European History class. I am excited to start working with the students. I was introduced today, and many of them had positive reactions, probably because I am good friends with them. I did notice that the second hour class might prove to be difficult test subjects. I think that classroom discipline will be a challenge to handle. I feel that with time, the classes will get to know me as a "teacher", and they will be more responsive to my instruction.

Overall, I believe that this project is off to a good start. Starting tomorrow, I will begin lesson planning with the first method. If all goes well, I will be able to teach my first lesson in the beginning of next week. No doubt, I will need the help of both of my advisers throughout this project, but I am very optimistic about getting to teach. Till tomorrow!

-Noah Creek