Has been a blast! I have learned a lot and have gotten much more comfortable each day in front of the classroom. One thing I learned from teaching my unit plans is that being prepared is crucial in the success of your lesson. I crashed and burned teaching a lesson because I was unprepared. This particular lesson was a math lesson, one that covered a topic I thought I knew a lot about, which I did, but one that I couldn't explain simply. I may understand something in my head, but sometimes it is hard for me to blurt that out in a way so that my students understand it. If I am prepared this lack of explanation and simplicity does not happen.
After the "crashed" lesson I went back the next day and tried to build on what I was unclear on the day before. I was more direct and clear on what I wanted to do and what I expected each student to be able to do and things went a lot smoother.
Students have been struggling with rounding too and its been frustrating to teach, but today I have finally reached everyone (or at least a majority I hope!) Each day we review the day before using warm-up questions and through discussion. I saw a few light bulbs clicking today and I think my instruction is getting clearer and more concise.
So far, I have learned that I need to make my objectives and goals for the lessons I teach clear and simple for everyone to understand. Never assume a student knows how to do something! (I taught my class how to use a dictionary the other day and it really made me happy when one student didn't know what a word meant during a language arts assignment and used the dictionary in the room to find the definition. Little victories make the days go by...)
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