To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what to say in this
particular blog post. We are supposed to reflect on the lesson we did for our
methods class. I think it went alright too, I suppose. Both of the lessons I
did…because I did not look closely enough at the prompt. The lesson was
supposed to be a writing lesson. I (and Haley) did a reading lesson. Well,
technically it was an annotating lesson, but the point was that it was supposed
to be teaching a way to write an informational or argumentative essay. And I
definitely did not do that the first time around.
The second try was better, and, honestly, it was actually
easier too. That’s strange to say, but I really only had to go over what you
have to do for each section, make sure everyone had a handout and paper to work
on, and model it. It was way easier. I guess that is why my original lesson was
so much harder to plan. I thought that I had to put a lot into each lesson.
And that is not true at all.
I have learned over the last few months that a lesson does
not need to contain a PowerPoint and a huge activity and everything under the
sun. You can be just as effective (perhaps even more so) with just the minimal
amount of things passed out to students and a bit of creative work. And I know
that I am so much less stressed that way.
And that’s a good thing, as I feel so much better when I am not worrying about every time, little thing. Nobody has time for so much worrying, especially not me.
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