What a day!
I taught my math lesson today and I must say that it was the most comfortable that I felt doing any of my lessons. I really enjoyed the entire lesson and the students enjoyed using the value charts that I made for them. I'm still trying to figure out what was so different about this lesson that didn't have me nervous or losing any sleep the night before. I was confident even though math is not my favorite subject.
My goal in this lesson was to reteach place value to the lowest performing students in the class and for the rest of the class I was hoping to show them some new strategies for identifying place value. I was surprised how excited the students were to participate in this math lesson, even the students that I was most concerned about were enthusiastic about answering the questions during the lesson and using the manipulatives to create their three-digit numbers. I ended this lesson with a Kahoot! and I wish that I could have used my own computer to get the results from the quiz to further document the students' learning. Although Kahoot! is a great program for review it doesn't account for user error, during the quiz I heard a few students say that they hit the wrong answer by mistake. For this reason, I'm glad I didn't make the quiz a major part of my assessment.
Since my lesson was pretty early in the morning, my mind was at ease for the rest of the day. I was able to observe my MT teaching three different small group lesson on this day. It was great to see the small groups done in the progression of the students' ability levels. I saw exactly how she differentiated her instruction for each groups. My MT is a really great teacher and I love it when I see her drift away from the curriculum and insert her own personality into her lessons. The way that she explains things so that the students are able to understand is always impressive to me. Her dedication to making sure that her class is managed in an orderly manner is not an easy task, it takes constant communication with the students and making sure that they adhere to her classroom expectations.
In a couple weeks I will have my first literacy lesson and I'm really looking forward to it.
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