This past Wednesday we were tasked to come up with a lesson plan for our first day of school. In lab, we shared 10 minutes of our lesson plan. Before going to into lab, I was excited and prepared to teach. Little did I know that my peers were going to assume the roles of students and act out their behaviors. The behaviors included: a bully, disengage student, a student on their phone, and a teacher's pet. Even though there were only four of them. They were the toughest group of students I have ever had. I've been reasonably confident in my abilities in managing students because I've been a camp counselor for the past three years. I would have to handle 15 campers to myself and surely thought four students would be a breeze. In my opinion, I think the behaviors were way over the top and not realistic in a school setting, but it did help me get a sense of behaviors I could be exposed to. Some of the tactics I would use with my campers didn't quite work with my lab students. I left my lab frustrated, but my next step is looking at more classroom management tools to prepare me for those unexpected behaviors.
Manny,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it felt as though the behaviors were a little unrealistic, however, if you can handle the unrealistic then a real classroom setting should be a breeze. I got frustrated when I was presenting as well. What can we do now? Learn and keep moving forward! Also, I thought you did really well when it came to management. When you were teaching I honestly couldn't pick out the fact you were as frustrated as you expressed after lab was over.
Manny, -
ReplyDeleteNot sure this is an example of effective productive reflection.
What specifically will you change in your practice in future teaching episodes.
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