Week 4 Reflections

This was the fourth week at my high school placement. I have been enjoying working with the high school students. This week I continued to write the lesson plans and I found that they flowed rather well. I felt that the lesson could have parts that would have went better. I did notices that the students were struggling with part of the lesson on Monday so I decided to change the lesson for the following day and do a differentiated lesson. I felt that this was something that helped the students. I saw a difference in the students after completing this task. Also I had the students do a writing process, within this writing process I learned that they have a difficult time figuring out the different ideas and processes. The students wanted me to tell them what to write and how to write it. I decided that since they were having such a hard time with this that on Monday of the next week they would be working on some more writing so that they would get more practice. I am excited to see how they respond to the writing prompt.

My other classes went well. I worked with the student on completing the research project. On Friday, the students presented the information. I found that they did learn something from the other projects as well as from their projects. Since September 17, was the Constitution day, I did a presentation on the history of this document. They really liked the PowerPoint and video that I showed them.

I feel that sometimes I am not sure how to teach the information to the students. I think that this will be something that will come the more I teach. I think that I need to trust the things that I know and share them to the best of my abilities.