Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Practicum
I'm doing my practicum at Nixa. My teacher is pretty nice, but not overly friendly. My first day was Feb 26. I go two days a week; 12-1 on Tuesdays, and 8-12 on Wednesdays. Anyways, she informed me on the second day of my practicum that I needed to do a lesson plan on Antigone, a play that we were going to start soon. So I had some mixed feelings about her telling me to do a lesson plan on my second day...then she e-mailed me and told me what I needed to do..so at first I was a little mad because it was supposed to be my lesson plan not hers. Then again, I thought, she IS the teacher. I guess I was glad when I thought about it because I wouldn't really know where to start considering it would be my first lesson in front of a class. I was actually supposed to do it yesterday ( 3/4) but we ended up having a snow day, thank God. I was happy because I had created the plan and everything, made copies and was all ready, and then sent her my plans to make sure it was okay. She said I needed to do it in a different way, and blah, blah; I really don't know if she knows what she wants me to. Anyway, I am going to present the lesson next Tuesday (3/11) and hopefully I will be better prepared. I am going to ask Zach (from last night) to make a copy of Oedipus (reader's theatre) for me so that I can possibly use it for an opener.
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Are you nervous about your "first" lesson? I'm "performing" mine on Friday. I don't know if I'm actually teaching it until I see the results!
~Stan
Yikes. I am pretty much petrified to teach the kids in my practicum classes. At least your teacher is helping you with the lesson....I'm not sure mine is going to help me!
I'm teaching this friday... to a business class. It is technically an English class that Nixa offers, but it is more directed towards learning about business and learning how to write business letters and create business cards and the mass media aspect of it all. At least it will be an opportunity to get in front of a group of students! I'm sure you will do great on your lesson!
I know that when my teacher is ready for me to teach, she will be a lot of help. She seems like she really wants to give me the information and let me run with it, but we havent discussed a time for that yet. We are doing To Kill a Mockingbird, so i have a lot of ideas, i just don't know how to incorporate them yet. But, in her English II class, she is going to use the lesson i used for my in-class lesson as an introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream. I thought this was pretty neat!
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