When I first went to the middleschool, I felt prepared and ready to go after all the preparations that were done. What I didn’to account for was the nerves that I had when I saw all the kids infront of me. Public speaking is not my forte and as a result, I was not able to think as straight as I hope during my discussion. The kids at the middleschool were great and I was very thankful that we had an attentive class that wanted to do our assignment. It is true that teachers really have a hard job and putting together a lesson plan even if it is only for a half an hour can be really difficult. The amount of thought that had to go into each part of a lesson plan is a lot. Many revision are essential to create a plan that will work under all circumstances. Sometimes you can’t account for everything and as a result, being able to do some improvisational thinking can be really important. Teaching was really fun and a great learning experience that I hope to have at another point in my college career and maybe later on in life.
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I have to say that when I also went to give my lesson, I thought things were going to go smoothly as well but it was a bit different than I expected. I definitely asked myself, how do teachers do this every day? Things are so unexpected. I guess Nick and I were also very lucky because we also had a very attentive class.
Some of the questions that I asked seemed to be a bit too complicated for the kids to understand or they might have been too long for them. I see that after I gave my lesson but before that, I didn’t really recognize the difference in their ability to comprehend certain complex things as opposed to me.
Did you use any aspect of technology in your lesson? That was something that I sorta had a “face-palm” moment with. I took my iPad out to look up a document on my GoogleDocs app and then I realized I didn’t have WiFi! It was a bit funny because all I said was “great.”
But like you said, it is an experience I wouldn’t mind doing again.