Monday, October 8, 2007

Comfortability

For as uncomfortable as I was teaching our mocroteaching lesson, I was that much more comfortable this week in my practicum. I was told I was teacing on Thursday of last week, but as I found in my short teaching experience things don't always go as planned. Instead of teaching I was a helper in giving another group project. It actually went really well since we assigned groups instead of letting them choose their partners. I find myself working really well with my cooperating teacher. We're relatively close in age and have many of the same beliefs in teaching. Plus he really lets me chime in whenever I feel like it. I all most feel rude just giving my two cents, but he doesn't seem to mind. I gave a bunch of my opinions when we were going over test review. I've graded the last three tests so I felt like I could give some tips for the next test. Hopefully things continue to go well.

1 comment:

GS Davis said...

I'm with you on that. Micro teaching made me uncomfortable, too. But I'm really likely these short little lessons. I think, with the short spans of attention that our adolescent students have, stringing a couple of short lessons together might be better than one longer one. So micro lessons sort of rock.