I have finally taught in front of an entire class. While I had two partners and we worked as a team, it was quite the learning experience. Working as a group to teach a lesson is quite the challenge. All three of us have unique ideas and opportunities to fulfill our dreams. By each of us having ideas, we had the opportunity to challenge each other to see how can we create the best lesson possible. at first there were so many worksheets. Probably too many for our second graders. We decided to throw some technology into the lesson replacing two of the worksheets. One of them was a vortex Smartboard game placing phrases into two category. The other was a tic-tac-toe game.
What was great about it was it got the students so excited and involved with the lesson. The downer was when we arrive at the classroom...their technology was not up to date so all of our games would not work! Thank goodness we had backups! I knew from prior experience, not mine own,- but watching others, that when using technology...ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP. I printed out the slides onto paper to have a manual opportunity in case this happened...thanks goodness I did because we needed that wonderful backup option. This also went really well even though the technology did not work. I learned also how loud the class gets when given the opportunity. This may just be this particular class, but it did get quite noisy when unexpected. while my first classroom experience was hopeful for an amazing, perfect lesson, reality does kick in and challenges come up. I appreciate the challenges because they will happen in the future and while I am officially a teacher. It has taught me so much more than any lecture or textbook could. I could have been told or read about challenges, but unless the situation pops up into a future lesson, le
arning can only happen when tried.
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