Dancing like a fool

Okay so dancing began last week and I was not really looking forward to how my students were going to act towards it. However after a little groaning and such the students love it! I started with the electric slide the first day and then we did the cupid shuffle. The cupid shuffle is a line dance that is to the tune of a hip hop song. It was a song that many of the students already knew so it was an easy sell. The students are now designing their own line dances and they will record, and edit them. Many of the students have asked if they can bring costumes and such, it is becoming VERY exciting! For a set to this lesson I made my own line dance that they watched before they began creating their own, I think it was more fun for myself. ha

math, math, math

Well I found the subject that I struggle with the most. Started teaching math a little while ago and I am noticing that i seem to confuse myself quite a bit. haha

After talking to my co-op he is helping me through this unit. He has gotten me to focus on a single lesson at a time and getting me to gather my thoughts before i start teaching. It has helped a lot to start writing down what examples i am going to go through ....who knew!

Update coming soon!

Started Religion Today.

Students are learning about the fruits of the spirit. They were responsible to connect at least 4 fruits of the spirit to the presentation that we just saw at St. Pius. The speaker was Cory Johnson. He was an awesome inspirational speaker that was able to connect to the kids using comedy as well as real life experiences. The students were very well behaved and seemed to gain a lot from his presentation.

Cant wait to read what the students had to say!

Changing a thing or two

My faculty adviser came on Tuesday to watch one of my lessons and wow was it ever chaotic. The way that i organized the class made a lot more work for myself. I was not very happy with how the lesson went. The students were all over the place and making a mess with the experiment that i had planned. Overall i did not feel so great about the lesson after.
The next day i was able to teach the lesson again to the other class. I decided to change a few things about the lesson and how it was set up. One of the big things that i changed was how i instructed the students. I went over the entire experiment with the class and answer any questions they had before we started. That made a HUGE difference in how the lesson went. After this attempt at the lesson i was very happy with how it went and was really excited to see how big of a difference it makes to change even the tiniest thing.
My co-op told me one time that usually if a class is bad during a lesson it is because of your directions and not the students. This was the case in my lesson and i was directly able to see that on Wednesday!