Friday, October 3, 2008
First Lesson
So on Wednesday October 1, 2008 I taught my first lesson in a classroom to kids. Sure I taught other lessons, but it is just not the same. I was asked by my cooperating teacher to teach about cause and effect. I had a worksheet for students to do and added a bit of my own activity. The teacher I am with said that it when well and he thought that the students were engaged, and that they really did learn what I wanted them to. I think that it went okay for the first one but I would not do the same think with these kids again. I do not think that the students have been taught some important protocols that were required to behave the way I imagined. Students were talking when and moved around freely when I thought they should be quiet and sitting in their desk. I don't know why I thought that it would be any different from a lesson taught by the teacher. I am sure that it does not bother him that students get up to get a drink and sharpen pencils when they please, but what I would let my students do. This just goes to show how every teacher is different and that they all think different things as far a class management importances. I think that I do enjoy how the teacher that I am observing is that he doesn't let little things like drinks from the drinking fountain interrupt learning.
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Way to go on the first lesson! something you will learn fast is that you have to set up procedures and expectations for each and every little thing, like appropriate times to get a drink, and repeat OFTEN! It's a huge part of classroom management, and if you don't you can lose the class fast and then you just feel like a train ran over you. So regardless of how the "instruction" and activity went, you learned a good thing about teaching. Really observing is so helpful. I just have to say I love my mentor, and I couldn't be happier.
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