Reflection from actually teaching!!

This past week has been a real learning experience. I have been able to
teach the students by myself for the first time, and I loved it!! There
were so many different things that I had to figure out in the process
that no one could have prepared me for. For example, I took the
students outside the classroom into the halls to find verbs on posters
we made. This took a lot of rules and patience with the students
because we needed to stay quiet while being able to talk amongst
ourselves when help was needed. They ended up doing very well working
together and finding the clues for the next poster around the school.
The classroom activities we did seemed also to be a success because we
were able to talk about the verbs and what they were constantly. There
were many questions, but they were mostly just checking that the words
they picked from the newspapers were verbs, and they were usually
correct. One of the students even said they loved Thursdays because she
really liked our activity! That is so reassuring that all the work we
pout into doing fun activities, was really worth it because they
enjoyed it!

Overall I felt it was a success and am excited for next week when we get
to begin our unit lessons! I am thrilled that we get to teach quite a
bit, because that is not always the case. We actually get to teach
language arts lessons, an activity that the teacher does daily with the
students (Daily Language Review), helping the students fill out their
planner, and our social studies lessons from the unit! We will be
teaching half days in a few weeks! This is the best experience I could
have imagined!

Niki Lynn