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Salvador Dali'sThe Persistence of Memory |
And so begins the trials and tribulations of student teaching. I may be exhausted, but I will reflect here....
Minus the fact I felt guilty having
to be in school during Rosh Hashanah and not dipping apples in honey, this week
went rather well. My TPA lessons went
almost according to plan. They were by
no means perfect, but I am not perfect.
There were valuable lessons this week, such as the value of a lesson
that starts and ends during a continuous duration.
Due
to the scattered broken schedule I have to deal with I often feel that my
lessons stretch over days. I actually
don’t feel that I know that. This week I
had two lessons that should have taken 30-45 minutes, but it took days. It was either a combination of over planning
or yet another assembly to interrupt my class.
Its life, but I have to learn how to make a disjointed lesson seem
seamless. It is even harder when you do
not like the lesson you have planned. I
understand I am not required to jump through hoops and pull out bunnies from
hats, but when I write a good lesson I feel more prepared and confident when
teaching it. When something is good, it’s
GOOD. However, these said lessons felt like they
sank faster than the Titanic. The kids
were taught the information; I just feel like I was not on my best game which
made it hard for students to make meaningful gains and really grasp the
material. Some material built on prior
knowledge, but it still required higher level thinking skills. This has been a struggle. I will say the bright side of having a lesson
drag on for days (literal, not figurative)
is that I was able to try and fix what I thought was a horrible lesson
into something moderately meaningful. We
can’t win them all. I am surely not
throwing in the towel ;-) but I use this as a learning opportunity how to make
my future teaching practice tighter and stronger.
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