This week I taught my second lesson and I feel like it went really well! This was a huge change from my transition lesson which was nice as this time I felt like I actually got to use a lot of the techniques that we have been talking about which are difficult to incorporate in the transition lessons. The lesson I taught was a literacy lesson and the children seemed to really enjoy it. I really felt like throughout the lesson I had some great behavior management techniques too that worked! I had them show me what active listeners look like and I counted down from five and throughout the lesson I only had a few small behavior problems. I think the children really understood the lesson and that they really enjoyed it as it related to Halloween and they got to draw pumpkins! Overall, it was great. I really love my class and enjoyed teaching the lesson.
I loved the format of class this week where we essentially taught each-other. I think that for me personally, there was not a lot of pressure like in cold call as I knew what I was going to be responsible for in the discussion and it make it much more enjoyable and I was able to focus and truly listen to the classmates in my group. I loved that it was a small group and we all lead each-other, and I felt like it allowed for more time to talk out-loud and voice your own opinion in the group. I also enjoyed our guest speaker that assistant principle as I learned a lot from him and it was great to see someone so young in administration. He was so positive about his whole experience which made me feel positive as well.
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Betsy - That's awesome that your lesson went so well! And really cool that you got to use some of the techniques we have been learning about this semester. I really do like the "techniques" book that we have this semester. There are a lot of really good things in there and more importantly things we can actually use!!
ReplyDeleteI also really liked the way class was handled this past week too! I am not a fan of the cold call either. I tend to worry about getting called on so much that I dont even pay attention to what is being said by people. Doing it in small groups really helped out and I felt like a lot more was said and learned!