Teach Week

This whole month went by so fast! I can't believe we are done with the high schools already.My week of teaching went alright it wasn't perfect but I felt like for my first time teaching alone it went fine. I was all prepared to go like the week before because I was nervous about it. I taught Tuesday-Friday because on Monday Katie, Meagan, Brittney, and I did a writing prompt with a group of students before Sen. Jack Reed came in to speak *It went awesome! just wish more students got to share*. To keep with the writing theme, Ms.Usenia asked me to plan my lessons around persuasive writing.
I really liked the lessons I came up with and most of them went really well. The students were engaged, answering questions, asking questions, and completing the work I gave them. I think the worst day was Thursday, I had the students doing a group activity. Every time I would walk away from certain groups they would just stop working. In that class only so many of them can work independently and don't constantly need a teacher motivating them to work....so when I asked both teachers to make groups for me I probably should have told them more what I was looking for especially because when they are sitting near friends the class gets pretty rowdy. Every group did finish in the end and got to present what they had written to the class on Friday. Most of the groups did exactly what I asked them to and their persuasive writing pieces were good. The groups that didn't do so well were groups of people that I knew wouldn't, they were the students that come in to class sit down , listen to music, and never participate.