Micro-teaching

For my microteaching, I spent my time at State High with Mrs. Campbell. The class I taught was her Exploration Agriculture Class that was made up of freshmen. Mrs. Campbell class was CASE class, so I was assigned the topics of lab safety, scientific method, and lab equipment. The Case curriculum helped give me a framework of what to cover, but I ended up adding a lot of my own information to the class. The class had nine students in it, so it was relatively small. I liked the small class because I was able to spend time working with each of the students.

My first day I covered lab safety and procedures it went awesome! I had my lesson well planned out, but after doing my interest approach, I decided to change my first activity. Initially, I was going to have the students write down on guided notes But after observing them with the interest approach, I decided to have them make a lab safety notebook out of construction paper. After going each of the rules, they would draw a symbol to remember the rules. They loved doing it, and it worked out well!

My second day of student teaching we covered the scientific method. The students had to come up with a hypothesis of why they thought a box was ringing. This activity was only supposed to take 10 minutes, but the students were coming up with great explanations and experiments, so I decided to extend this part. By the end, students were able to prove why the box was ringing along using the scientific method.

Overall the microteaching was great! An area that I need to improve is being more evident when it comes to giving instructions. I re-watched my video, and that was the biggest thing that jumped out! This experiences defiantly has me excited about student teaching!