On Wednesday
this week I was given the opportunity to lead a math lesson for third graders.
Overall I was not really happy on how I taught the lesson. I was able to observer
the CT teaching the first group of students the math lesson. I took down as
many notes as I could on what the teacher said, the question she asked the
students, what she had the students say, and what she wrote on the board. Then I
was thrown into the second group.
Overall I was
not really sure how it went. I do think the student understood what I was
teaching. But they did have some previous knowledge on the topics. So I was
just building on what they already knew. I not sure what I taught them or what
they already knew.
Looking
back on the lessons I taught at my main placement, it was not my best one. The one
thing that I learned was when I starting out teaching I am going to have to
write everything down. I learned that I have to write down, what I am going to
say, the questions I am going to ask the students, what I am hoping they will
say. I did this at my main placement, and I felt more confident going into
leading the lesson. I notices that I did not have to really look down at my
lesson plan, but knowing that it was there was good comfort to me. So I think
for my first year, I am going to write very detailed lesson plans.
I completely relate to this post. I also find it extremely helpful to write down everything I plan on saying during my lesson. I usually begin the lesson using my plans then end up leaving them laying around somewhere and just go on from memory. It is definitely my preference to have time to prepare for a lesson beforehand so I feel comfortable with what the students are learning and my goals with teaching. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you weren't happy with your lesson! I'm sure it went much better than you think it did. :) But I am the exact same way, I need to write everything down before I give a lesson (I learned the hard way from one of my main placement lessons). Once I teach the lesson, I don't refer to my notes too often, but writing it all helps me think through the lesson much more effectively. Hopefully the more we teach, the less we'll need to write, because writing every word of each lesson we teach will take a really long time!
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