Plan B

This week has been quite a trip with everything that's been going on the projects, papers, quizzes, and tests. But working on my lesson plan for this week was a breeze and didn’t take me long to put together. It had everything in it that would make a great lesson but after this week I realized that I made one fatal mistake that I had not taken into consideration, students don’t always do what they’re told. And that's what happened, half of the class didn’t watch the video before class and the other half had a hard time understanding it, that was my own fault I’ll admit. But while I was fishin’ around on the NC Standards site trying to find one that relates to this situation and I guess that would be to know your content. I am a bit paranoid at times and sometimes that comes in handy because I had a feeling just before class that most people didn’t watch it and that my lesson would have to be scraped. But where this standard applies, at least to my understanding, is just a few hours before class I came up with a plan B just in case. Plan B was related to my first lesson but had a lot of changes to take into consideration that students didn’t know the content. Not sure if there is a standard relating to this but I think it would be a good one and that is always be prepared for the worst case scenario. But I knew my stuff well enough to create a whole new lesson to adapt to the current situation. The more I reflect on the new lesson the more I see some more flaws in my original that I had not seen before. But I think it offered a good experience that we need to be ready for anything and always have a plan B and be able to adapt to the new circumstances.