Well our week of teaching went well. We were not able to finish everything in the amount of time allotted to us each day, so the teacher had the students finish some of their assignments during times when we weren't there. It is okay though, the students learned what they needed to learn. We know this because they were able to recall the information that we stressed plus some that we mentioned in passing!!!
We were observed our last two days of teaching. We had not had any real problems with the students misbehaving until Thursday (the first day we were observed!). What happened is every day we taught in the morning except for the Thursday and Friday, because our Intern Coach could not come to observe us earlier in the day. We were scheduled to teach at 1:30. Thursday morning Laura got a message saying we needed to teach at 1:00. This posed a problem because we could not be observed until 1:30. We decided to stretch out the beginning of our lesson so that she would see both of us teaching. However, about 15 or 20 minutes into this, the students got bored with the activity but the intern coach was not there yet, so we had to stretch it just a little longer before we started the next part. We were ending our lesson with sand art which would have been fine if we had not had to drag out the first part of the lesson. The students were not able to finish the sand art (most barely got started) before they had to go to a presentation and then recess. We learned much from this experience.
Friday went better because we knew ahead of time that we would be teaching for half an hour before we were getting observed, also, we had ways of keeping the children from getting bored or out of control. We are going to do a little more on our lesson on Monday. The students are really into the writing we are having them do right now (even some of the ones who normally would not be).
It is nice to be in the field and I am learning a lot. Now all I have to do is get all the papers written that are due when we get back.....
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3 comments:
Hey! It sounds like you are learning how to adjust your lessons, much like Apryl and I! I feel like we just don't have enough time to get it all in. Today was crazy we went to the computer lab and lets just say it was the first time I've ever used Mac! Oh how I wished you were sitting next to me to help me figure it out! I did okay for pretending I was the all knowing teacher for my students :)
I'm suprised you were observed twice? We were observed only on the first day? However, it sounds like you 2 know your stuff and are doing fablous!
I can't wait to see you it has been fun being out here teaching but I miss seeing everyone every day! I hope your last week goes well. See you on Monday!
Hey Angela!
It sounds like you are having a really good time teaching. I can't wait to hear about your experience in class on Monday, only two more days left :( soak it in and see you monday! Proud of you!
Tausha Nickle
hey there Angela I know what you mean about having to make adjustments and having a hard time on your observation. Our first observation wasn't too great the intern coach commented on how many of the students were not with us mentally. We had some getting up to get a drink we had some sharpening pencils, it was a learning experience and we had to learn when it is essential to tighten up the reigns a little bit. It was a good learning experience and our second observation went much better. Well it will be good to see everyone again, back to work though we must go. See you next week.
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