First Group Lesson

After I taught my first group lesson I quickly realized how important it really is to set the behavioral expectations up front to the students. In this particular situation I was teaching 6 5-6 year old boys and I had a hard time commanding their attention. They were talking about spelling and other ideas and I had to take what they were talking about and tie it all into the lesson so that I could get their attention and direction where I needed it to be. I realzed how much teachers talk about behavioral expectations and most teachers require that you put the behavioral expectations explicitly in the lesson plan so the children will know what kind of behavior is expected from them, and now I know why. Overall, I think that the lesson went great, but next time I am going to think of some plans for setting up the behavioral expectations up front so that they will know how I expect them to behave. Until you teach, you have no idea how important this can be in a lesson!