Delores
It seems as if your year got off to a good start too. I agree that the instructions and directions we received at NTI this summer has made this position much better. Last year I had the worst time trying to keep the students focused and on task. The worst problems was keeping them a wake. I now know it was primarily the teaching strategies and instructional methods I used that was causing many of the problems. Being a new teacher to the educational profession was a transition all by itself, but when I found out that the old fashioned lecture based classroom no longer existed I felt like I had made a mistake in wanting to be a teacher.
I only wish I could use the same lesson plans used at NTI. Our administrators gave us a new lesson plan template which is cumbersome to complete but very detailed. That is good in one sense and bad in another -takes took much time to transfer information even with cut and paste
techniques to the new form. Overall, everything is going well.
Delores
ReplyDeleteI agree with you my CTAE administrator did the same thing to us in the department of career tech. New lesson plan templates I was very disappointed because, I think they way they taught us in NTI concerning lesson plans seem to have a better flow towards instruction. So now I have transfer all the summer lesson plans from NTI into the the format.
My first year of teaching was terrible because I had no classroom. I had to use a crate and push my text books to different classrooms and use teachers planning periods inside their classroom when they had no classes. My wife talked me into giving it one more year... I'm glad i didn't give up on teaching because the rewards have been great and rewards will be great for you also.
I was so pleased to observe you last week and see you implementing so many interesting activities in one class session. Dr. J.
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