iTeach

Today in class we started teaching our lesson plans. I realized as I presented mine, just how well it sounded on paper versus how well it sounded when I taught it. I almost felt bad about mine, because I felt like I forgot everything as soon as I began, but then I remembered that we were only allotted 20 minutes, so I decided against beating myself up. Before, I couldn't see the point of presenting our lessons in class besides to make a fool out of ourselves, but now I'm starting to become grateful for these moments. It gives us a chance to practice and practice and practice before we are thrown out into the real world. I have to teach the introduction to a lesson tomorrow to high school ELL's and I'm pretty nervous, but I can say that I'm becoming more confident in my abilities after doing mini lessons in most of my EDUC classes. It's a great method that allows teacher candidates to practice NCTCS #5: reflect on your practice. Doing these mini lessons allow me to sit back and say, "okay, I probably should change/tweak this; maybe I could change this and do it this way instead" and also it shows me where my strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to talking in front of a class.