Marques Rutlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Martinez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n
23 September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reflection 2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nAfter meeting with our partners at JJK and compiling lesson plans in preparation for the water fair, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work at JJK and contribute to the future of water infrastructure education. As a team, my group has worked well, communicating effectively with the educators at JJK, always having questions to ask, taking down notes during discussions, and being respectful. Individually, I could improve a bit more and take more initiative in talking to the JJK members during online meetings. On multiple occasions, it’s usually Peyton or Alexandra communicating the main idea, and I may add or explain how I will contribute. It\u2019s important for me to step up because, as a future educator, I want to improve my communication skills, as this is what I will be doing on a regular basis. As a band director, I will be collaborating with parents,teachers,staff,and others on a regular basis, and I will be using public speaking on a daily basis, leading activities and large group ensembles. During the site visits, I believe I\u2019ve been confident and observant during our time at JJK. I made sure to introduce myself to the kids and interact with them. At JJK, my group got the opportunity to observe and participate in a lesson where kids were tasked with identifying trees using the types of leaves and other clues that were on a flash card. During this activity, I was paired with 2 other kids,one of whom was more laid back, and the other kids were very active and joked around a lot with me. It\u2019s important to have a balance between fun and work because this after-school program shouldn’t feel like a chore to kids. Our goal as a team is to make water conservation education interactive . Personally, that site visit as a whole was refreshing to me, validating my knowledge of working with kids. This experience also validated how fun it is to work with kids. I enjoy it because of how random and intelligent they are. Kids pick up on the small things and will surprise you every day. In the future, I plan to be more outgoing and more present during discussions with the partners. This will be my time to finally step it up, since we will be doing something education-focused. I want to be a resource for my partners for designing their lesson plans and basic classroom skills. I have prior experiences leading, for example, during my senior year, I job shadowed the middle band director for my education teaching class,I volunteered at the Pattonville High School\u2019s summer band program,and during my senior year, I was drum major of the marching band. All of these experiences required me to lead and demonstrate knowledge to others confidently. These experiences have shaped me into who I have become today as a future educator, and I can’t wait to use these skills at JJK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marques Rutlin Dr. Martinez Research Team 23 September 2025 After meeting with our partners at JJK and compiling lesson plans in preparation for the water fair, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work at JJK and contribute to the future of water infrastructure education. As a team, my group has worked well, communicating effectively with the educators at JJK, always having questions to ask, taking down notes during discussions, and being respectful. Individually, I could improve a bit more and take more initiative in talking to the JJK members during online meetings. On multiple occasions, it’s usually Peyton or Alexandra communicating the main idea, and I may add or explain how I will contribute. It\u2019s important for me to step up because, as a future educator, I want to improve my communication skills, as this is what I will be doing on a regular basis. As a band director, I will be collaborating with parents,teachers,staff,and others on a regular basis, and I will be using public speaking on a daily basis, leading activities and large group ensembles. During the site visits, I believe I\u2019ve been confident and observant during our time at JJK. I made sure to introduce myself to the kids and interact with them. At JJK, my group got the opportunity to observe and participate in a lesson where kids were tasked with identifying trees using the types of leaves and other clues that were on a flash card. During this activity, I was paired with 2 other kids,one of whom was more laid back, and the other kids were very active and joked around a lot with me. It\u2019s important to have a balance between fun and work because this after-school program shouldn’t feel like a chore to kids. Our goal as a team is to make water conservation education interactive . Personally, that site visit as a whole was refreshing to me, validating my knowledge of working with kids. This experience also validated how fun it is to work with kids. I enjoy it because of how random and intelligent they are. Kids pick up on the small things and will surprise you every day. In the future, I plan to be more outgoing and more present during discussions with the partners. This will be my time to finally step it up, since we will be doing something education-focused. I want to be a resource for my partners for designing their lesson plans and basic classroom skills. I have prior experiences leading, for example, during my senior year, I job shadowed the middle band director for my education teaching class,I volunteered at the Pattonville High School\u2019s summer band program,and during my senior year, I was drum major of the marching band. All of these experiences required me to lead and demonstrate knowledge to others confidently. These experiences have shaped me into who I have become today as a future educator, and I can’t wait to use these skills at JJK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolio.siue.edu\/marques-rutlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}