My First (practice) Day Of School!

 I think that my lesson snap shot of my, yet to be had, first day of school went very well. I believe that the activity that I did gave the students an opportunity to share how they feel about the class going into it and allowed me to learn some information about them. I know that in order to gain respect from my future students, I have to show interest in their lives and be genuine to myself and them. I think that being on a journey about learning with them, will be a humbling experience because I am not an expert in everything that I am going to teach. 

I learned from this experience that the more preparation that I put into a lesson, the more confident I feel when presenting it. I also learned that I need to feel more comfortable with myself while I am teaching. I need to find a way to let my personality shine through the lessons that I am teaching, while still keeping a professional image. I believe that if I can accomplish this, it will allow me to appear more genuine.

I can apply the lessons that I learned from the experience everyday from here on out. Being prepared for my lessons as well as being comfortable with myself will go a long way in making me a better instructor.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Microteaching Reflection

During my three days of microteaching, I learned some things that I think may be useful to me. The first thing that I learned is that I absolutely despise teaching over zoom. Many of the suggested improvements to my lessons would have been corrected by simply being in person. One of the worst parts about it is not having any connection with the students in the class. With them all being on one camera, I could not see their faces and it was very hard for me to even pick up their names. Engagement from the students was good for a zoom class, but the discussions were not able to be led very deeply because it was hard for me to read the students because I could not see body language of facial expressions. Another thing that I learned is that teaching over zoom, really makes me move through the content quicker than I originally plan for. During my first day, I taught what I had outlined in my first day lesson plan as well as half of the second days instruction. I am very happy that I had ev...
Read more