Megan's Teaching Day #6

Today was our last day teaching! It was a great experience. Today was the preview of their performance for monologues. I have never seen a unit all the way through. It was great to be able to there from start to finish. I have learned many things during this process, but I would like to comment on student centered learning. Some of the time we had followed our lesson plan exactly as it was outlined, but most of the time we had to switch it up due to the students. This way we catered our lessons to the students. I am glad that we were flexible so that we could change things for the students. Teaching really is all about the students. From my past experience just teaching 1 or 2 days there isn’t much experience with that because you are there only one day then you leave, but being able to be there for 3 weeks was amazing. We got to know the students, helped them and were able to cater our lessons to them. They are really smart and move really fast through things, so we had to bring more material. We were able to give them constructive feedback on their monologues. I wish that we would have been able to provide more resources for them to succeed. For example, give them their rubric sooner for the final performance, give them a schedule so they know what is going on, and give instructions better. This way the students have all the resources they need to succeed!