>> My name is Marty McFarland.
I work for Wee Know Schools.
I get subcontracted out to different facilities like St. Charles Catholic School.
I do their after-school program as needed.
I work for Hartland North Elementary.
I work in their before and after-school program.
And during the summer I help with the summer program
at Wee Know Schools in Hartland, Wisconsin.
I'm like spackle.
So wherever a crack appears during the week, that's where I am.
And sometimes a crack, so to speak, could look something
like a student that's really having a hard time.
And they're maybe having some emotional issues, some stressor has come up,
or maybe they have multiple disabilities.
Just because of, generally, my size, my voice, I can kind of tend to come in.
It tends to calm things down a little bit.
Just start out kind of loud because I can be loud then you start taking it down.
And then I can ease students in like that.
So I do get used that way a lot during the course of a day.
When I go into different grades, I always have kind of some mental preparation.
I always carry websites with me, some funny videos that would be,
obviously, appropriate to the lesson.
If it's about math, I might have something that interjects math.
If they're studying something in history, I might bring some funny videos about history.
I also bring in artifacts.
I know one class was working on an ecology theme.
And so I brought in a tortoise shell that I had and it's really huge.
Active learners, they like to get up.
They like to move around.
So I try to really prep for that so to have some mobility.
To be ready to sit down if they have to sit down but they have things that would allow them
to get up, put things around the room, so they have to get up and move
and have some action around that.
Also the talk to the teacher.
Find out who all the adults are in the room
because sometimes you don't always know who's there.
And find out the schedules.
The first thing I do when I walk in a room -- usually teachers will have posted a schedule.
I don't even usually ask the teachers.
I just look right at their schedules.
They are usually right there on the wall.
And so I just pay attention to the obvious.