Week 12 of Student Teaching!

It's hard to believe that I just complete twelve weeks of student teaching! It's even harder to believe this was my first full week of classes since nearly February! Every week we either had some sort of interruptions that caused us to have a shortened week. So having a full week of classes was noticeable but nice to have!

This week in large animal science we focused on genetics! I finally was able to use the foldable that I received in NAAE back in late November! I quickly realized that this activity took a  lot more time than expected, never overestimate students cutting and taping abilities. One thing I would change if I were to do this activity is to have step-by-step instructions with pictures to help build the foldable. I thought if I had directions on the board and me walking around with a sample would be enough, but students still struggled. 

At first, I was a little nervous to include foldable into the lesson but I haven't done them before and wasn't quite sure on how to introduce them. But I am glad I do! Overall, the students really liked them! It was a nice break from guided notes and gave students an interactive way to receive information!  

With the last remaining weeks, I want to challenge myself even further on introducing new activities into the classroom! Foldable was a good risk! So I am looking forward to seeing what other risks I can take to increase student learning! If anyone has some cool and interactive lessons I could use send them my way!