Tech in the Class

Teaching is a lot of fun. The students in Mr. Larsen's class were awesome. They jumped into what ever we put in front of them. Something that I feel we did really well is choosing our lesson and making our lesson plan very interactive and well paced keeping the students on task and engaged in the learning activities. Teaching however was also really hard. We never had an official run through all together to test our timing and transitions between activities which would have helped a lot with flow and classroom management. When we broke off into groups it took the first group and half the time with the second to really get a hold on how to keep them focused on the task at hand and not in their own imaginations. Boy teaching is a lot of stressful work that can really pay off in the end when it all comes together. And if it doesn't it is still a lot of stressful work that will hopefully pay off after a little more stressful work and preparation. I am excited to be a teacher, however I am also ever scared. Scared of how much work it takes to make just one lesson and have to do that for a week of eight classes a day but excited to get to teach those lesson plans and see them pan out and get to help the students learn something that will help them in their lives. The best part of the trip to the elementary school has to be seeing the smallest boy in my group go up in front of the class and sit on the ginormous chair that they designed and made with a huge smile on his face.