Class 31 - April 6, 2011 - taught today

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cu1zI-vOwVZcDQ3Qek0M8xHmFomsKSUakF9yW9U_2dg/edit?hl=en#

My group taught today. We started in Miss O' Leary's classroom with groups D, E, and F. The lesson was on chemical technology. It was a fun lesson that involved the use of a puzzle to start the lesson and also a Smart Board vortex game.  In my group, my job was to hand out the name tags for the different jobs like the reporter, time keeper, the presenter, and task manager. Each name tag for the different roles included a description of what the role entails for the student to do.

• Each student in the group will be assigned a role.  
• The task manager.  This student will keep the group focused and will ask essential questions to get the group thinking.  
• Time keeper.  This student will keep track of their time because they will only have five minutes to discuss the objects.  
• The reporter.  This student will write down everything the group says. This student will record the observations, different opinions, conclusions and reasoning.  
• The presenter.  This is the student who will present the group’s findings to the class.

Before handing out the article I asked Mrs. Benfer if this article would be good for the students. Mrs. Benfer said that the students would like the article because some of the students play different sports in the classroom. Once the lesson was completed and all the presenters presented their results for their groups. I explained the homework was to read the article I handed out and it was important for the students to complete. The students were to pick a sport and write about the sport and how the sport uses chemical technology in a journal entry that has to be at least a paragraph long. The students really enjoyed the lesson. 

Here is the link to the homework article that the students used to write a journal entry for. 

http://portal.acs.org/preview/fileFetch/C/WPCP_011042/pdf/WPCP_011042.pdf

This was a good experience for me to get up in front of the class to teach the students. It was nice to see and learn how to engage the students in the lesson. It was a great learning experience for me to know what works and what does not work in the classroom. Through teaching this lesson I learned what to do for next time to improve the lesson and what not to do for next time. I also learned that it would be a good idea to hand out the name tags individually to each student instead of putting them in the middle.This experience has taught me a lot about teaching and what you have to do as a teacher.