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S LO#7

 This week at my MMUN  (Montessori Model United Nations) internship with the upper elementary students, we were working on their speeches. We just finished the student's position papers so it is now time to work on the speeches that they will be presenting to their committee room. When I got to the room my internship supervisor, Ms. Sood, asked me to time each of the student speeches. When they are at the actual Montessori Model United Nations Conference their speeches are only allowed to be 1 minute long, so as an intern it is part of my job to make sure that they are staying under that 1-minute limit. the students were presenting in front of each other in order to practice saying a speech in front of other people. Since I was timing I considered whether or not I should share the times of each person's speech. I decided against this because I thought that since this is a younger age group (9-11 years old) some students would not like or be able to handle the possible embarrassment that would come from me saying their speech was too long. I am also not very familiar with all the students, so I did not want to mention all the times, as I didn't know how each student would react. I did, however, mention at the end of all of the speeches that some people did go over 1 minute, so I suggested that everyone times their speech again and make edits as needed. Also, some students did approach me after asking if they were over on their speeches, so I was able to privately offer some suggestions to each student. Overall, I am very happy with my decision here. 

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