I know it's been a couple of weeks since I had taught the class alone, byself, with my own subject and everything, but I figured I would reflect on how it went. I had to opportunity to choose what I would like to teach the class. I was very nervous at first in coming up with my own information and what I was going to do for activities with the class. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do or how I was going to go about doing it. I got some suggestions from my "supervisor" and after that some ideas started to flow into my brain.
I came up with some type of agenda in which I would follow during the class. I came up with showing a diargram of the skeletal system to the class and haveing them copy the words down on there own diagram while I explained where the bones where and what they did. After I introduced them to the names and locations I imformed them that they would be taking a quiz at the end of the class on the same xact diagram and the same bone names. Of course I got a lot of "ahh man" and "a quiz?!" but I told them that I thought they wouldn't have any problem with it.
We then went over some diagrams on the board and I had them identify where they names went and I made sure that they had them in the right spots. I them introduced them to inverebrate and vetebrate animals. Ones with no back bones and ones with back bones. They seemed to catch onto the information very quickly.
I then had them lable and color the same diagram that I had given them at the beginning of the class except it was obviously blank. I was surprised with how well everyone participated in the class activities. They seemed to all pay attention to me and they all seemed to work hard at their work. More so than what they usually do.
Overall I thought the class went pretty well. I was satistfied in how well I taught the class and I was satisfied in how well the kids ended up doing on their quizes. Honostly, they did a lot better than I thought they would do. I think the next time I teach a class on my own I will feel a lot more comfortable.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Six Mistakes of a Lesson Plan
The first thing I think of when thinking about a lesson plan is that it is a agenda that you want to follow. What I would do is write down a list of things that I would want to do in order in each individual class. For example I had a social studies class with a teacher in which he would right down on one of those yellow lined pieces of paper each thing in which he would like to address or do during class time. It gave him an order in which to go by. According to this article there are six parts of a lesson plan in which you would need to follow.
The objective: The objective is basically just what you would like to kids to learn and how you are going to teach them. What you want in the end is that some how you have proved to yourself that you have taught the information correctly and that you know that they know the information.
The lesson assessment: The lesson assessment is just basically a description of what you had taught them and how the teacher will determine that the students have learned the material.
The prerequisites: All the prerequisites says is a statement of what the student needs to know or what they must be able to succeed in the lesson plan.
Materials: All the materials are is what materials will you be useing in the lesson to get the students to be able to learn the information easier. It can also be using materials in actrivities that you are doing. basically anything to make the students lives a lot easier.
The instruction: The instruction is just how the teacher communicates with the students in which he/she wants and is looking for the student to show how they had learned the material. Another way to say it is the directions that the teacher gives to the students. Again giving instructions on what the teacher is looking for in the assignment can make the students job a lot easier.
The student Activities: What are the students going to be doing to get to know the material that has been taught? Are they going to be doing worksheets, drawing projects? It just explains what the students will be doing to earn the grade and to show that they indeed learned something.
The objective: The objective is basically just what you would like to kids to learn and how you are going to teach them. What you want in the end is that some how you have proved to yourself that you have taught the information correctly and that you know that they know the information.
The lesson assessment: The lesson assessment is just basically a description of what you had taught them and how the teacher will determine that the students have learned the material.
The prerequisites: All the prerequisites says is a statement of what the student needs to know or what they must be able to succeed in the lesson plan.
Materials: All the materials are is what materials will you be useing in the lesson to get the students to be able to learn the information easier. It can also be using materials in actrivities that you are doing. basically anything to make the students lives a lot easier.
The instruction: The instruction is just how the teacher communicates with the students in which he/she wants and is looking for the student to show how they had learned the material. Another way to say it is the directions that the teacher gives to the students. Again giving instructions on what the teacher is looking for in the assignment can make the students job a lot easier.
The student Activities: What are the students going to be doing to get to know the material that has been taught? Are they going to be doing worksheets, drawing projects? It just explains what the students will be doing to earn the grade and to show that they indeed learned something.
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