I survived

This month we focused on presenting and pretending to be elementary students during lesson plans. I presented my lesson plan second in the entire class. I was nervous and very unsure about how everything would play out. I had written, rewritten and then practiced my lesson plan many times. As I started my lesson plan, I felt all eyes and a you-tube live stream video camera on me. I admit I was stumbly with my words and my exact thoughts did not come out as planned. By the end of my lesson I wanted to rewind 20 minutes before and tell myself to calm down and just do it. I believe that I would have done much better if I was less nervous. If I were able to teach my lesson again I would re sequence some of the things to help the comprehension from the students. As research shows teaching gets easier as you continue to teach. You learn from experiences and they say the first year is the hardest.  http://blog.happyteacher.org/will-teaching-get-easier-next-year/
As I listened to the other lesson plans from my other classmates I learned a lot of interesting and engaging ways to teach Standards. I am looking forward to stealing ideas about wavelengths and about solids, liquids and gases. These engaging experiments and activities are whats going to take the boring objectives of the NCTCS into memorable lessons to students. My classmates have shown me all the exciting things you can accomplish with students in 20 minutes. I plan to use engaging activities in my future classroom because I want to be the teacher that students remember as making learning fun. Excited to where my next Education classes take me and how much I still have to learn!