Brian Mhatre
7/5/2018 1:30
Penisula Bridge
Rolando Victoria
rvictoria@menloschool.org

Going into my second week of teaching at Penisula bridge I had a whole new group of students. I focused the second week of the class primarily on website development. The kids the second week of the program were a little less interested in the material and more interested in playing Roblox. This presented a bit of a challenge when trying to keep the kids entertained for an hour. I tried to incorporate more fun stuff into my lessons and reference Roblox in a lot of my explanations. Managing sixth graders definitely tested my patience on multiple occasions but luckily my calm and relaxed nature won out on all occasions. I think my overall impact was relatively limited since I was only with the kids for two weeks and wasn’t able to go that deep into any subjects. The only impact I think I could have had on the students is encouraging them to pursue computer science in the future. Although I also did teach them some useful things they can do in terminal (their computers text interface). Overall I enjoyed my time working with these kids and I learned a lot from them. Communicating with them effectively was a skill that I honed during my time a bridge and I think this also helped me become a more understanding person in general.