The teaching continues...

This week we have continued to watch our fellow classmates teach us a lesson and some of them have been real interesting but some of them have kinda bore me. We also went over integration this week in class and I didn't realize the huge role it played in teaching. As teachers we have to learn to integrate different subjects in different ways so that it will all connect together. If we as future teachers put integration at our goal then our students will leave your class knowing that they can use what they learned in our classroom and apply to the rest of their school. In PE we can use literacy to help integrate different subject in our classroom. I went to observe an elementary class this week and they were playing a matching game in PE. There were different words and pictures on the cards and the students had to use motor skills to get to the other side of the gym and pick out the picture that matched the card they were given. The students loved this game and the game taught them words that some of them didn't even know. This teacher had integrated different skills all into one lesson and done a fantastic job. That is what teaching is all about is to take different lessons and apply them to things that the kids will understand and how they could apply it to their lives. I hope that when I enter into my classroom this will be the focus of mine and the students  and if it is my classroom will be filled with learning.

Let the Teaching begin...

In this week's class my classmates have been teaching us lessons on the subject and grade they plan to teach when they graduate. The lessons have been very thoroughly taught and I have enjoyed all of them. I will have to present my lesson on Monday and I have been kind of nervous on how I should approach my lesson, but watching everybody teacher this past week has given me a little confidence seeing that it isn't that bad. Each student that has presented has done something real well such as working one on one with a student that didn't understand something to using games or real life examples to help guide their lesson along. Also to see how some of the students are acting in class according to the grade the teacher may be teaching is kind of nerve racking.
          This week has got me really excited for when I go into the school and teach PE. Each student has taught a different subject and a different grade. This has broaden my perspective on what each grade will be like and how the students are going to react at each age. For example in the 3rd grade lesson students were acting like they didn't know anything and asked tons of questions compared to the high school math lesson when students were playing on their cell phones and throwing paper balls across the classroom. I didn't really take the perspective when I was those ages about those things happening but now that I will be on the teaching side of this I see all of this in a new way. It drives me crazy when my classmates were asking all these questions and playing on their cellphones, but that was me 3 years ago. My perspectives are changing everyday about education and how to approach being a great teacher.