Personal Narrative: My First Health Class

What a scary day! I am going to be teaching my first health class to the 9th graders. The topic will be on passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. I arrived at 6:45am to school because I wanted to be sure I would not be late and wanted to be less stressed. When I arrived, I took out my lesson plan and reviewed until Anne arrived. When she arrived, we talked about what today would look like. Our day would entail reviewing with her how I would present my plan to the class, do work in the health office, reviewed with the secretary what I would need her to type for my lesson for the next day, review with Anne and the health teacher after teaching the class. Anne reviewed my lesson plan and asked me to present it to her like I would to the class. She listened to me and gave me some …show more content…
We decided which room the drill would be held. When we got to the room that the drill would be in and the manikin would be planted, the room was empty, so unfortunately I did not meet the teacher. She took me to visit the other classrooms nearby to tell me what their role would be during the drill and to confirm that they had on the wall the drill information by each telephone. After checking out the rooms, we stopped by the main office to speak with Maryann L. to be sure that she was ready to be the operator of the drill. When we spoke with her, we found out that her paperwork needed to be updated. The information that she had showed a lot of marks cross off and things written in other colors as the correct information. She requested a new color for the paper and corrected information about the drill be placed on the paper. This information will be corrected and on Monday, 2/13/17, I will recheck with Maryann L. to be sure she has everything she needs for the drill. What I learned from this, is that no matter how many times you have a drill, checking everything ahead of time is