Ahhh, the Joy of Lesson Plans!

Today I taught my second lesson.  It went better than my first one, but I feel that they were both successful.  For my first lesson, I taught a group of students long division using the "Does Mcdonalds Sell Cheeseburger Recipes?" method.  The students seemed to enjoy it and after their assessment, I feel they were understanding how to divide with single and double digit divisors.  However, there was one student who decided to act up, which was very unlike him.  I kept redirecting him and pushing him to try.  He was refusing to do his work, but after they put their offices up, he got back on track.

My pre-assessment activity.

Mrs. Black had me grade the students F.I. tests today, which was over single and double digit divisors.  I paid particularly close attention to the students work whom I worked with during my first lesson. I was so proud to see that some of the students I worked with mastered the concept. "THEY GET IT!! I TAUGHT SOMEONE!" I thought to myself. Then I got to another students' who I worked with... He was one of the students who, while teaching the lesson, I was confident had mastered it based upon my observations and assessments.  Unfortunately, he failed his F.I. test.  I began to feel what it is like to be a teacher and to feel as if you failed your students. I did not know what to do.  All of the other students understood the subject except for this one student.  My mentor teacher had already moved on subjects after today and he was now going to be behind. It honestly hurt my heart.  

My lesson today was a review of renewable and non-renewable resources.  The students did a great job during their assessment activity during the lesson.  I could tell immediately they knew what they were doing.  The activity went very well and the students loved that they were able to sit on the floor and get out of their seats.  For their assessment during the activity, they were broken up into groups and had a handful of pictures, both renewable and non-renewable resources.  They needed to place the picture on the correct side of the t-chart that I created with tape on the carpet.

We discussed where we placed the images and why we thought they belonged there. As a final assessment, students were asked to write 1 renewable and 1 non-renewable rosource and what it life would be like without it.  They had to state what would be affected and how we could conserve those resources.  Overall, the students cooperated very well in this activity.  They have began to respect me more and I feel a part of the classroom.  With only 3 visits left, I am going to be sad to go.