TEACHING MY LESSON

Last week, I was able to teach my second lesson plan. It went very well, and I was pleased to get immediate feedback from Sydney and my classroom teacher. I hope everyone else's lessons are going well and that you recieve feedback like mine, very informative and helpful! Just wanted to say that I appreciate it! The students in my classroom were very engaged, and I have to say this is due in large part to a powerpoint I made. I made a powerpoint of holidays and the students were to help me discuss them, as way to start my lesson. The biggest contributor to this presentation was my classroom teacher who gave me holidays that students in the class celebrate that other students might not have heard of, or that I had not heard of. These holidays were Queen's Day in the Netherlands and Eid ul-Fitr, an Islam holiday.

Neighborhood pictures!

Today in our class we did a very neat and engaging activity. We each brought in a picture of our neighborhood, and then discussed the pictures in detail in class. After we all taped our pictures next to each other, we were able to see the similarities and differences between them.

I thought that this activity was very engaging for us as college students, but it would be even more so for the students we will be teaching. After doing a lesson today on being a good citizen of a community, I realized that kids are very in tune as to what a community has, doesn't have, and what they want it to have. By seeing what each person defines as their "neighborhood", they can also be lead into seeing how other people view the world.