One moment in my field experience this semester was during one of the labs my host teacher was performing. One of the students that was always quieter was sitting in the back of the room not participating whatsoever and was just sitting slumped in his chair. I walked over to him and asked him if he understood the lab. Without making eye contact with me he said yes but proceeded to sit there without doing anything.
I took this opportunity to try and get closer with him. I asked if he would be ok with me being his lab partner. He agreed and I sat down next to him and we started going through each question or activity one by one. To my surprise, as we continued through the lab together, he started getting much more interested and curious about what we were doing.
He started getting friendlier and by the end of the class period he thanked me for checking in on him and said that he was having a bad day but that made it a little bit better. The rest of the day I couldn’t help but feel so blessed to have experienced that moment with that student and make the connection that I did. For the remainder of field, he would go out of his way to say hi to me and ask how my day was going. That is something that I will never forget.