Teaching Day 2!

Second Day in the Classroom!

Wednesday was my second time teaching in front of the second grade class. Like the first lesson I was nervous to get up in front of the class and teach, but this time it was for a different reason. My group had a bit of trouble making our indirect lesson plan, so I was nervous to see how it might turn out. We continued with the topic of goods and services in your community. Being an indirect instruction, the lesson was meant to be like a mystery, that the students would have to solve within their groups. I must say that this was the weakest of our lessons. We had limited time, which made us nervous and caused us to rush, with resulted in us leaving out certain importation that would have made our lesson more effective. Though this lesson was not perfect I still feel that it went fairly well, students seemed to understand and were very involved in the lesson. 

The lesson started with a review of goods and services. We did an interactive sort on the SMARTBoard, this reinforced the definitions of goods and services. Being part of the introduction, we definitely should have cut down the amount of time we spent on this activity. It was very repetitive and students began to lose focus. To view this activity click the image to the left.

Activity 

For the activity each group received an envelope that had about 3-5 phrases in it. As a group the students read the phrases and as a whole had to determine what service was being described. Students really liked this activity, but it did get a little out of hand. Before handing out the envelopes to the groups we should have gave a bit more direction about what the students should be doing. Also I think it would have helped if we went over different roles that each person in the group should have. This would have helped keep the activity a bit more organized. 

We then closed up the lesson by having the groups share their phrases and what service they thought was being described. We then asked the rest of the class if they agreed or disagreed. 



Overall I think that this lesson could have gone a bit smoother if as a group we just slowed down. Being our first indirect lesson plan I think it went okay, but there is definitely room for improvement.