Guest Speaker

The Guest speaker today was ver inspiring as it taught me the importance of using, modelling and practicing good behaviour before it can become problematic behaviour. It is very true that once children are taught to follow proper procedures, they very rarely go against it because its what they have bee taught. I remember in my classes always hearing the "if you" statements and it always gave people the permission to do something wrong but with the knowledge that they would be punished for it. Thus, class management starts with modelling appropriate behaviour and teaching children not the wrong behaviours but the right behaviours FIRST.

My micro-teaching on Friday went really well. I was nervous at first but once i got going, it was so hard to be nervous as my students in Grade One are such great kids who love to learn. I did a lesson on number sense and numeration where we (as a large group) did a "pocket computation" and developed strategies to help us discover how many pockets total where in our whole group! The children seemed to really enjoy this lesson and it taught them that they can not only count by ones, but tens as well when calculating a larger number. Overall, it went really well and i learned about some ways to improve my teaching abilities. However, i also learned about the skills i have that will one day make me an effective teacher that i hope children will admire.