Reflection #11

This week we worked on our lesson plans for the 6^th graders.

I realize this reflection will be exceedingly short. Give me a break, we literally only did one thing all week. Therefore, the “observe” part of this is only one line.

I love imagining how the students will react as we teach them! I always loved having guests when I was a young(er) student, so I wonder if they will get as excited as I always did. On the other hand, I also loved messing around whenever we had a substitute teacher. Hopefully that doesn’t come back to bite me.

Another thing I thought about was the excitement I get when the lesson plan comes together. As a student, I often couldn’t care less about what the teacher was teaching or how they were teaching it. Now as I’m preparing to teach, I am really invested in what we are doing. I feel bad giving so many teachers such little regard, they work hard and put so much into what they do.

I can’t wait to finish refining our plan and go teach. I will definitely think about different teaching and learning styles as we prepare to teach, and try to make the teaching as effective as possible. This assignment is the culmination of everything we have learned in 276 so far. I am excited.

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