The last couple of weeks we got to spend on teaching a lesson was a lot of fun. It was really neat for me to see the different approaches everyone took on teaching story telling. None of the lessons were the same. It made me think a lot about how differently the same subject can be taught. It emphasized for me how important coming together as a staff and collaborating on how to best teach a unit is.
As far as taking on the role of being a teacher as a student, it was a good experience, but I'm also not sure if it was a realistic representation of how I would interact with students in a real classroom setting. Since I feel very comfortable with the students that are in our class, I felt as if I were a peer giving a presentation rather than a teacher teaching a class. I think this is partially because I know all of the students in our class are there to learn, and I didn't have to focus on teaching to a range of different abilities or anything. Everyone was polite, engaged and respectful.
Being a student during all of these lessons was also a lot of fun. It was really cool to see what people decided to focus on in the lessons, and how they went about keeping the class engaged to teach what they needed to teach. I enjoyed all of the activities that we did. Every group was great at creating in class activities that were fun and focused. It made for a week worth of really fun stuff!
