Last week in class we
worked on our six point lesson plan and were trying to hammer out the details.
Which I’m glad we spent time on because I have a hard time putting pen to paper
when it comes to planning. I know what I want to do for the lesson but the way
we’re supposed to turn in our plan, with the word for word what we’re going to
say, that I have difficulty with. The other part is the presentation, it’s not
so much getting up in front of people and teaching I have a problem with it’s
the limitations of the presentation. I’m not sure how to explain it but I can
give an example I know the people teaching music will understand:
Having to teach a lesson on
how to play an instrument or understand the gestures (not sure what it’s called
but this is what I’ll call it for now) the composers makes. But most people in
the class don’t play an instrument and are not musically inclined, like myself.
The lesson is also in mid-stream so the “teacher” has to pretend that the “class”
has already gone over the info and would understand when in reality we have no
clue what is being taught.
The
teacher learns so much about each student and how they learn, their reading comprehension,
and strengths and weaknesses, etc. But in this we are attempting to create an
artificial class with no history and teaching a lesson that would be in
mid-stream.
The
other experience has its own problems, by other I mean planning three lessons
that we will be teaching to actual students. The problem here is the limit
again of not knowing the students and missing the crucial information. The
second is that our presentation of the lesson is limited to something more
along the lines of a lecture or the teaching format of the actual teacher. I
prefer the flipped classroom to teach but most teachers don’t use this and
because of the technology limitations in the class this teaching style cannot
be used.
It is
all of this that has me worried and I know I have a knack for being negative or
being able to find the bad in everything I just hope I’m over reacting to all
of this. I’ll find out after my first presentation so time will tell.
I think you are worrying too much about teaching your lesson to students. Just think of it as practice for the day when you are actually teacher your own classroom.
ReplyDeleteDalton,
ReplyDeleteI know what you're saying about the lesson delivery (as a mock lesson to the "class," which is really made up of future teachers that mostly have no idea what you're referring to when your lesson becomes very content specific. Since my content area is music, I also was a bit concerned about this. However, it's really good practice to deliver a lesson to a "class" that doesn't know much about what you're teaching. It helps you be a better teacher in the aspect of ensuring that all students understand the content, regardless of ability levels or learning styles. As we practice, we'll get even more confident with this!
Chrysalis