Yesterday, was only our 2nd day at Reiley and already our CT is letting Lindsey & I have a hand in teaching our second/third grade students. She let us take over the reading aloud of a chapter book called the "The Journey". She told us that she plans to let us take over the class more often, as much as we feel comfortable with. We are both really excited about this, since we both want as much experience as we can get under our belts before student teaching this fall. Has anyone else's teachers let them start to teach?
I do have to say that as fun and nice as our CT is, I have to be honest in the fact that she doesn't really inspire me much with her teaching style. You can tell she teaches from the old way of thinking: using textbooks and lecture to teach the content. She tends to rush through material and jump around alot. Our class is composed of many below-grade level students and I don't think she recognizes the fact that she is going way to fast for them to comprehend the material. She is getting close to retiring and I feel she is just going through the motions alot and not putting the extra effort into her lessons as she might have done in the past. I feel that that the students in our class need for her to really slow down and try to appeal to other learning types. She really seems to favor lecture and reading from the textbook. Does anyone else's teachers inspire them or not?
Is anyone else teaching Social Studies first? I teach my first lesson on February 12th...I am so anxious and nervous at the same time.
P.S. Abby I typed mine from the couch, I know it's not as luxurious as the toliet, I guess we all can't bethat lucky! :)
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It is a good thing that you can see how your kids are struggling though because then you can change that or address other learning styles in your teaching when you do teach. All teachers teach us something, even if it is what not to do. Dawn and I are teaching S.S. for our first unit and we start the 7th. We're teaching about presidents and then during our second or third day of the unit we have to double up and teach our science, which is on dental. What's your unit on for S.S.?
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