Time to Teach!

First Day Teaching!

 

Monday was my first day teaching! I was very nervous to get up in front of the class and teach for the first time, but once I was finished I was excited bout doing it again. My group had the topic of goods and services in your community. This lesson was a direct instruction. It was more teacher based and we were just looking to see what the students knew about the topic and what we needed to tell them more about. The class seemed to have some background knowledge on goods and services, which was great!

 

For our less we started by asking students to share what they knew about goods and services. Then we went to our PowerPoint, this is where we had definitions and examples. We had three different activities that followed the PowerPoint. 

Activity 1

We had students tell us the definitions of goods and services in silly voices. 
 

Activity 2 

We allowed students to get more involved. Using the SMARTBoard, students took turns sorting the different images into goods and services. We then asked the rest of the class if they agreed or disagreed with the choice made. 

Activity 3 

We had students work on a T-chart activity. This was were they would have several pictures and they would have to sort them into goods or services and then glue them to the chart. 
 

Then we closed the lesson by asking students "what did you learn today?".  Student were eager to share what they learned! This is also when we assigned the students a homework assignment. This was a Social Studies journal. They had to write what they learned in class. This was our way of assessing what they had learned individually.



 Overall I felt like lesson one went very smoothly. Students were focused and engaged in the lesson. One thing I would have changed was the T-chart activity, I feel like it might have worked better as an independent assignment to test what they learned. To make activity two more interactive, we could have had the students work in groups.