Thursday, April 17, 2008
My Practicum
I had my practicum lesson on April 9th at Nixa HS. I felt like the teacher pretty much planned everything for me, so it wasn't really my lesson. What she basically had me do was talk to the students about what we would be doing in class, refer them were they could find the answers, and then walk around and answer questions the whole period. They were doing beginning work on research papers- learning how to cite, paraphrase, properly introduce a quote, etc. The source they were given was about multitasking. They had a packet of information that they were to refer to for the answers. There were only about 10 students that asked me questions. The rest were either too scared to ask me, or knew, or pretended they knew the answers. I didn't feel like I got to interact with my students a lot. I tried to incorporate my own ideas into the lesson, but the teacher pretty much had a set way that she wanted it done. I look forward to my student teaching where I can make the lesson mine.
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3 comments:
That's too bad that the teacher didn't let you formulate your own lesson around "her" topic. I mean, you could have done a mini-lesson on citations, sources, anything related. Hopefully this doesn't happen in your student-teaching!
~Stan
*sympathetic head pat*
I agree with Stan.
My lesson was similar. My teacher had given me the lesson and told me what to do. I created the lesson plan and changed it up a little bit, but it was her activity. It was nice not having to create my own lesson, but it would have been more fun if i could have!
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