Job Shadowing Experience

I had a very great educational experience with my job shadowing opportunity. My first time job shadowing was at Hawk’s Nest STEM Academy, a private school for elementary students. We job shadowed a woman who handled the technological activities in the classroom. What I liked most about this job is the troubleshooting as I was very familiar with Ipads that were used for the activities and was able to fix many of the common problems associated with the devices. The skills and training I needed for this job were patience, effective communication techniques, and to assist the children with technology problems. These skills I believe are essential as many problems associated with technology would require communication with the person having the problem. There were many other factors that were interesting about this job shadowing experience. This job was solely based on technology and our main objective was to ensure children had the most smoothest experience with all technology related class activities. I was nervous about the environment as I had no idea of the …show more content…
Ironically, our schedule was set up wrong and we had to drive from Mount Holly middle school to Belmont middle school. Finally, we arrived at the correct school and we were assigned to sixth graders at Belmont middle school. What I liked most about this job is that we got to interact with the students and assist them with arts and crafts. There was no technological aspects involved in this job shadowing experience which upset me at first but I made the best of it and gained valuable communication skills. Most of the habits that were important for this particular job were following directions and participating as a team member of the teacher to make the teacher’s life easier. Even though I was not too fond of this particular experience, I made the best of