Week Five

"In thinking about my teaching activities this past week, of what do I feel most proud? Why?"

I try and implement different teaching strategies in my lessons each day.  However, I struggle with different activities to do most days, I have found some of the activities work where as some do not. Last week my school system was on Fall week so I am going back to an activity I did the week before. In my second level class we were learning about the integumentary system.  Instead of having my students draw and label parts of the integumentary system I had them actually make a 3-D model of the integumentary system. I thought I would get a lot of resistance from the students because the project required them to do more work than drawing or just labeling a worksheet . However, I was surprised that they actually enjoyed the project.  It seems like no matter what I do I always have students complaining about the assigned tasked! The best part is I even had some students tell me that they learned a lot more from this activity than other activities we have done in the class. When the students told me that I felt proud and felt as if I had accomplished something substantial.