Awning aside, this has been an awesome week! I started teaching my large animal science class! So far I love my students! They participate and have made me feel so welcomed! This week we covered the basics: setting up AET, classroom procedures, and getting to know each other.
I am looking forward to diving deeper in content next week by starting off with animal domestication!
One challenge I had this week is incorporating my digital notebooks! It's a lot harder to include it then I thought. I realize once students save them to their drives I am unable to edit them if I wanted to make changes. I pre-made the first two units of them and I'm afraid that's going to pigeon hole me if I wanted to change content. This is the first week I will be using the digital notebooks, so if they are a bust, I may consider taking them out of the curriculum.
A personal goal I have this week is to be more clear with directions and have pictures on powerpoint to assist with them. I had directions on the board that were bulleted but students were still confused. A tip I got from both my cooperating teachers is to walk the students through the directions, especially when having them log in to websites. It may make sense to me but for studnets, it can be really confusing.
I am wicked excited to start off next week!
Manny, student teaching and teaching in general make you feel a whole new kind of tired that you don't experience doing anything else! Getting yourself into a routine and on a consistent schedule will help you feel more energized and will help your body get into a rhythm where you can kick the afternoon slump and coffee. It is great to see you wanting to use digital notebooks, and I hope you can find a way to make them work for both you and the students, because they really are a great resource. I suggest reaching out to our team of virtual mentors for your cohort to see what advice they have for you. If you Tweet using the cohort hashtag, they should all be able to see it. Glad things are off to a strong start and I love your positive energy and enthusiasm!
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ReplyDeleteI look forward to learning more about digital notebooks when I visit in a couple of weeks.
I do suggest you think about naming your weekly blog posts around something that will carry meaning in the future.
ie - instead of "week 3" - you might use "finding the endurance" or "exploring digital notebooks"
Remember the process we taught for clear directions:
- Signal Word
- Directions (Logistics before Cognitive)
- Check for Comprehension (What questions are there?)
- Signal Word
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