Participating in Community Service at Pershing Elementary with Mr. Carroll has exposed me to using different skills that I haven’t been familiar with in my life until this point in time. My supervisor has assisted myself and others in learning and using these skills properly throughout this first term. The three most prominent skills that this class has taught me are knowing how and when it is a good time to set an example or use leadership skills, proper problem solving, and how to interact and treat children of all ages. Assisting a Pershing Elementary PE teacher we get the opportunity to work with children of all ages. Some of our main jobs at this site is to lead lines of students back to their class, help explain the game or activity …show more content…
Although I have already used problem solving skills in my life they have definitely advanced from being at Pershing. Almost every class has that one student who disrupts the class or talks during roll call. One of Mr. Carrol’s ways of making sure everyone is on task is that they have to say here and they required to make eye contact and raise their hand. This solves his problem or off task students while try to take attendance and if they don’t follow the rules of roll call then “He doesn’t know that they are present in the class”. In my first few weeks of community service there had been a student that hurt their leg during class and I was asked to assist them up to the office and we didn’t have a wheelchair at the time so I had to compromise and we found a chair with wheels and wheeled him to the office. Same applies with knowing how to treat younger children, I have definitely become better with this type of skill, you have to know when to be serious and a leader, but there are also times to be friendly and have a little bit of leeway to goof around with students when the time is