I would like to know where all the missing videotapes of your teaching have gone. EVERYBODY OWES ME AT LEAST ONE!! You have to help me keep in touch with you and your teaching. I care about you and your experiences but you have to do your (required) part as well. Blog on!!
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Ok so I guess this is kind of cheating since I already knew the answer to this.
The most dreaded lesson I actually didn't end up teaching... Breast feeding. We have two knew students that are more than comfortable talking to me about their issues because they came in with me being their teacher. However, one of the girls that was there before me is just really awkward. She gives me weird looks all the time and rarely opens up. She luckily went in to labor and I had to change up my topic for the day. I mean, I can understand. #1, I'm a guy... and well, lets face it, to her that's enough to say who needs #2 #3 or #4.
Triumph... hands down a lesson that I also switched last minute. There was a lack of science lessons being taught to the preschoolers, so I made a bunch of copies of two different worksheets on creating science lessons. I had all the students come in and sit in the little chairs. One one table I had a bunch of chemicals, milk, soap, food coloring, and containers. On the other, two stacks of worksheets and the textbook.
"We have a problem. There is a severe lack of science lessons being taught to the preschoolers. But, that's ok. We are going to fix it today. I printed a bunch of worksheets for us on how to make science lessons."
You can imagine the loud grunts and dirty stares.
"We have a choice, now. We can each grab worksheets and read this book together... Or I can show you some awesome science."
The students all yelled awesome science. My plan worked, muahahaha.
I had them all huddle around the table and stood back giving random students little tasks to do. Filling containers, measuring things, etc. After 5 wow factor science experiments they were all smiling and their eyes were huge. I wrote on the board the word "EPIC" and split them in to groups of 4.
"I want each group to take a lesson plan sheet and come up with their own epic science lesson. You can use one of mine if you want, but there's a catch. You have to write in detail why my science experiment worked..."
They all went to work and each lesson plan I got was better than the last.
When the students cleared out I literally jumped in the air and let out a "woo!"
Success.
Video tapes coming to a theater near you...
Much love guys,
B
Sounds rough Brandon, Breast feeding would be tough with a bunch of high schoolers!
For me, the most dreaded would have to be a recent lesson involving a review of Equivalents because they scored poorly on their assessment with that, so I decided to do a review with them that involved the SMART board and candy with treats. They absolutely hated it.
First period had a few bad eggs that were in one of their moods, and they just bring the whole class down, but the rest of the periods also didn't respond well to it. I'm not sure what it was, they may have felt childish, but it was a situation that I thought woudl go great that just bombed out. No fun.
A triumphant lesson was kinda the opposite. I assigned each student to read a section of the text and teach it to the class after preparing for 10 minutes of so to familiarize themselves with the main points they thought the rest of the class should take away.
I originally thought they would not like getting up in front of their classmates, but each one of them knocked it out of the park. They got up, and kept it short and sweet passing on the best information. This was their introduction to interviews, resumes, cover letters, etc. They all did really well on all of the following assignments, including the mock interviews which was the final assignment worth a test grade. They enjoyed every aspect, I was very surprised.
Thanks for sharing Brandon and Patrick!! Both of these are great examples of getting students actively involved in their learning. Mad props to both of you!
How about you, Chanel and Alissa?
I would have to say that teaching textiles was my most dreaded lesson. There is no way to get the whole class hands on with the limited number of material swatches that we have and the information is very dry. I did have them split into groups and had materials for them to feel and guess and then teach the class about but if I could do it over I would!
I would say a triumph for me would be my recent sewing lesson with the fashion II students who have always been very sceptical of me. I have patterns for them to practice sewing with and they thought they would rock it no problem! WRONG! and gues what?! they realized they needed me :) They are working toward earning their sewing machine "drivers license" which they love!
Getting by here. Hope all is well
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