teaching my lesson in the classroom...

well last week i finally got to teach my own lesson and it went pretty well. i had the students read aloud and work in groups and they seemed to really enjoy my lesson. one thing that i never thought about until that day was that when those students are done with your work, they become very, very bored!!! the students in my practicum class began to get out of control, so i had some of the students who were interrupting the classroom get up and share some of the ideas from work they had done in front of the class, but this didn't work for long. so when raising my voice, not yelling by any means, the students completely ignored me as if i were a student. it took for my cooperating teachers voice to calm them down. one thing that i have learned is that i need to come to the class prepared with more work for the students to do if they finish early. this way students won't become disruptive like they did in this class and not begin making use out of the extra time!