Its the first day of class going into your senior year and you have not prepared lessons, learned how to even develop amazing lesson plans and BOOM you get hit with a lesson plan and have to teach it next class! These are examples of the completely horrifying but incredible experiences AEE 412 is throwing at us. #psuaged15
As we pulled out random lesson plans from a folder not knowing what your going to get all you keep thinking to yourself is what will I get. Well I was the fortunate one to pick juggling. Of all things Juggling!!!
So for the next two nights I tried teaching myself how to juggle and lets just say that was not a success. Keeping this in mind I went into the lab to teach others how to juggle let alone I could not do it myself. This was frustrating because how can I expect students to do or learn what I am teaching if I can not do it myself. If I was the student I would be like this teacher point blank does not know what she is doing. It makes you feel the size of an ant in a world the size of ours.
From watching my video I did learn that I need to have more positive encouragement and reinforcement. I know not every lesson is going to be amazing but it is something to strive for. I also came to the conclusion that if there is ever a lesson or topic that I need to teach and am unfamiliar with it that one I need to really dig deep into the content and or cal in a guest to lend a hand.
Megan,
ReplyDeleteSomething to keep in mind when presenting lessons on a skill, its best to perform the skill for them as you provide the directions, then have a student perform the skill while you provide directions, and finally allow a student to do the skill while talking through the directions. This provides students with 3 sets of the same directions and will usually be more successful in understanding what they are to do.
You'll learn more about demonstrations in AEE 412 and will have a chance to master the teaching technique for demonstrations in AEE 350.
Keep working hard!
LR