What A Lesson Learned From The Classroom

I am really glad we got to plan for and execute this lesson before we actually teach a lesson in our classroom with the students. I not only was able to learn what went well and what I could work on but I also was able to learn from my peers and things that went well and what could be changed in their lesson. It was less pressure to do them with our classmates first than it will be to teach it in a class full of 4th and 5th grade students. For my lesson, I choose to do the topic of immigration because that is what they are going to be learning about next in social studies. This is the topic I did for my text set in this class. I was about to use some of the main questions and go from there. I also picked out the book Ellis Island, which was in my text set, as a big part of the lesson. I came up with a way to relate what we were learning to the student’s lives to try and get them engaged. There were some things that went really well while teaching the lesson. First off the timing of it was good. It was a …show more content…
I learned how things don’t always go as planned and how sometimes the words I use could be confusing to students. If I talk it through I can see what makes sense and what doesn’t. I also saw how important it is to over plan and not under plan. Some of the lessons taught in our group had some blank time that could be filled with something else. This is why the extension activities are important to have ready to go. I hadn’t had them prepared with the materials at hand in case there was extra time. I know now to always have extra to do rather than not enough. If you don’t have enough to do with a group of students in front of you it could be uncomfortable and stressful. This is when students could begin to act out and be a little