Today was the day, I taught my first lesson in an actual classroom! I was excited and nervous, (mostly nervous) but ready to get this lesson under my belt. I was disappointed that my MT was not able to view the lesson due to a doctor's appointment, but I still have four more lessons to teach and get her input.
In my opinion that lesson went well, the students were engaged and even came up to me after the lesson and told me how much they enjoyed it. The sub that was in the classroom, who happened to have taught in the district for over 14 years, also complimented my lesson and teaching style.
I'm really proud of the anticipatory set of this lesson. I started off by showing a picture of myself and asked the students who they thought it was in the photo. They all guess right away. I went on to say that I was 7 years old in the photo and that it was taken 40 years ago. I told them that when I was a kid we didn't have Walmarts or Targets but I showed them a photo of the stores we did have (Zayre). I wanted the students to see that I was a kid just like them and that when I was young my parent would give me the long speech before we went into the store basically saying not to ask for anything because they were only getting things that we needed. Of course all the students could relate to that story because they have all heard that speech before 😂. One of the students quickly added up my age and said, " you are 47 years old", another student asked me if I wanted to know how old his grandmother was and I told him absolutely not because only last week another student told me that his grandmother was younger than me by 3 years!!
As I said earlier, I feel that overall the lesson was successful, but there is always room for improvement. I believe that I could have pushed the students critical thinking more with some of my questions. I'll give myself some grace, I'm still learning.
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