During my second week of student teaching I learned many different things. I started teaching with mu first class Business law. I found that I was very nervous to start teaching so I went through the material very fast for the first two days that I taught. On the third day I started to feel more comfortable and I believe that you could see that in my teaching. I gave the students handouts and we had as activity that dealt with slogans from commercials and they had to see how many they knew. That was an activity that I did with them on Friday. My cooperating teacher was very helpful with tips on my lesson plans and with my lessons. I also observed a life skills class that I thought was very interesting. The teacher of the class is very experienced and taught the students very well. I did my middle school business observation also.
If I could back back to the beginning of the week I think that I would try to prepare myself even more for my first class of teaching. I was prepared but I think that since I was so nervous that it looked like I did not really know what I was doing. I would try to incorporate more real world examples of consumer laws also. I know that I need to relate it to the students more and use more examples throughout my lessons.
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You are definitely right, it is always good to prepare too much than not enough. My lesson this week was introducing Web page design to the kids and some of the periods were shorter so planning and being flexible is one of the most important things we can learn as teachers.
ReplyDeleteYou can never be prepared to much, and i think once your prepared theres nothing to be nervous about. These kids look up to you and hold you at a high standard, so if anyone should be nervous its them. My lesson was in Desktop Publishing and my lesson only took around 15 min, get in connect to them, make it relevant, explain then let them get to work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. You can never prepared too much. The more I am prepared the better I present the lesson. The confidence will stand out and the real world examples of connecting the content will be incorporated without hesitation.
ReplyDeleteYou have some very good reflection on your performance in both answers to the questions.
ReplyDeleteI think if we can critically and constructively look at ourselves when we teach, we can learn a lot from our own assessment. No one has to tell us what we are weak in; I believe we all know ourselves better than anyone else. However, taking our weaknesses and turning to our strengths to fix the weaknesses is the obvious solution in making us better educators for our students.
I agree that you can never be prepared enough for your first lesson with a new class or any class. I found out that overplanning is always a good thing. Our nerves sometimes can get the better of us, and I know that I also rush when I get nervous, just know that your students can't tell when your nervous.
ReplyDeleteThought I would let you know I have source that told me your doing great. Keep up the good work!