This week, I learned something about myself. I'm always learning, no matter what. As a Teacher, I have to stay open to new things and creative and challenging new ideas. I've learned to be more flexible with my lessons and activities.
I planned a Unit Lesson this past week. Some of the lessons was a success and worked with the students. Atleast 20% of the Unit was more complex for the student. I had to adjust the way I taught the lesson, I had to cut out some of my lecture time and create an activity, such as a drama skit, to make the lesson more relatable to the students. The lecture was not as engaging as I planned.
I learned that flexibility is key to engaging and accomplishing goals as a Teacher. If I stayed with the original plan, my lesson for the week, would not have been a success. Their could have been a possibility of me having to reteach the entire lesson.
Hi Tamarah-How are you? One of the things that I really grabbed a hold to at NTI is not to lecture more than 8-12 minutes.I try to always have an activity available for the students to do related to the unit lesson. I just finished with skits. I find that students love to act, or role play. my students had to write a skit, list the characters,set up shop scenes, and perform the skit. We had so much fun. My students were learning to properly communicate for success. I'm sure you know in every profession there is terminology that has to be properly used and that's how they had to write their skits.Always do something engaging and keep them interesting. I would love to be in your class.
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