Day 8 - 8 Hours
Another day of teaching. And even more exciting stuff!
My brother had a meeting to go to in the morning so he had a sub assigned to his class, but since I was there I was pretty much the acting student teacher. I was in charge of the class, settling them, taking attendance, informing them about their research papers, and teaching the lesston. My brother returned at the end of the first period I was teaching and since I had such control of them (he was impressed that a student who does minimal work was reading his poem to the class and the whole class was listening) that he didn't approach any of the students or engage them unless they had a specific question just for him.
Anyway, the form of class was simple. Students read their found poetry from the day before and then were given the task of creating found poetry from their research papers. This was a challenging task for nearly all of the students, but they all produced something and even those who thought their work wasn't that great was really pretty good. i don't know if I would do found poetry off of research papers again, but at the very least it was a cool experiment to see what would happen. After they spent time working, I had some students volunteer to read their work. Only one class wasn't very receptive to sharing, but apparently that class (according to my brother) doesn't do a lot of work and are disengaged in general.
Some highlights:
During my first class, i briefly mentioned if the students wanted to stand up to read their poems or come to the front and the students took the initiative and nearly all who read stood up. This showed such pride and ownership in their work. I didn't mention it so much in the other classes (i forgot to) but that is definately something I need to remember for the future. But when the students did read, to quiet the class I appealed to them telling them to respect each other. This seemed to work.
Also, maybe one of the coolest things so far was the kids calling me Ms. Winterling. The first student who did caught me off guard and I didn't realize he was addressing me. It was just pretty neat. I was also talking with one class and I thanked them for giving me to opportunity to teach, since it was my first experience. Well, they were surprised, they thought I had been teaching for a while! HA!
And just a little side note of gloating. My brother said that I looked really natural teaching, that when I asked for his advice on how to praise the students after they read and he suggested things I just naturally picked up that advice and put it to work. He also said that he was more comfortable/confident of my teaching on my second day in his classroom than he was with his student teacher in the third week she was in his classroom. He may be partially being nice, but he wouldn't praise me without truth behind it.
And actually, when I was in between periods or when I had a bit of free time I wanted to be working with the students. I wanted to engage the class or individual students. I'm just so happy that now I am sure that this is what I want to do, and apparently I'm suited for it!!
My brother had a meeting to go to in the morning so he had a sub assigned to his class, but since I was there I was pretty much the acting student teacher. I was in charge of the class, settling them, taking attendance, informing them about their research papers, and teaching the lesston. My brother returned at the end of the first period I was teaching and since I had such control of them (he was impressed that a student who does minimal work was reading his poem to the class and the whole class was listening) that he didn't approach any of the students or engage them unless they had a specific question just for him.
Anyway, the form of class was simple. Students read their found poetry from the day before and then were given the task of creating found poetry from their research papers. This was a challenging task for nearly all of the students, but they all produced something and even those who thought their work wasn't that great was really pretty good. i don't know if I would do found poetry off of research papers again, but at the very least it was a cool experiment to see what would happen. After they spent time working, I had some students volunteer to read their work. Only one class wasn't very receptive to sharing, but apparently that class (according to my brother) doesn't do a lot of work and are disengaged in general.
Some highlights:
During my first class, i briefly mentioned if the students wanted to stand up to read their poems or come to the front and the students took the initiative and nearly all who read stood up. This showed such pride and ownership in their work. I didn't mention it so much in the other classes (i forgot to) but that is definately something I need to remember for the future. But when the students did read, to quiet the class I appealed to them telling them to respect each other. This seemed to work.
Also, maybe one of the coolest things so far was the kids calling me Ms. Winterling. The first student who did caught me off guard and I didn't realize he was addressing me. It was just pretty neat. I was also talking with one class and I thanked them for giving me to opportunity to teach, since it was my first experience. Well, they were surprised, they thought I had been teaching for a while! HA!
And just a little side note of gloating. My brother said that I looked really natural teaching, that when I asked for his advice on how to praise the students after they read and he suggested things I just naturally picked up that advice and put it to work. He also said that he was more comfortable/confident of my teaching on my second day in his classroom than he was with his student teacher in the third week she was in his classroom. He may be partially being nice, but he wouldn't praise me without truth behind it.
And actually, when I was in between periods or when I had a bit of free time I wanted to be working with the students. I wanted to engage the class or individual students. I'm just so happy that now I am sure that this is what I want to do, and apparently I'm suited for it!!
posted by Sara Winterling | 7:04 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home