I was so excited and nervous to teach my first lesson this semester. I taught social studies and the concept of supply and demand. I wasn't able to teach till 2:00 p.m. and by this time the kids were already ready to go home and not paying a bit of attention to their teacher. Which didn't make me the happiest person in the world, becuase I knew it would be extremely difficult to get them to focus on the lesson. Like I have said in the past, there is no classroom management in place in our practicum classroom. So, I took it upon myself to use the "Give me 5" technique since I knew most of the students had expereienced it in other classrooms. I literally had to use it every 5 mins. to keep them focused on the lesson. It did make a small dent in all the chaos. Plus, I had a student who didn't take their medicine and was literally acting like a monkey (climbing things in the classroom). It really challenged me to use the classroom management techniques I had learned in cottingham's class and from previous CT's and apply them effectively. I felt I did a good job and was reassured by my partner Lindsey. I will now be better prepared for when I teach my 2nd lesson this upcoming Wednesday. Even my partner, said she learned alot by watching how the students reacted to the "give me 5" technique and plans to use it when teaching her own lessons. If anyone else has some effective techniques for dealing with a large group of rambucious students, please let me know. Thanks!
I hope everyone else who is teaching first had a great experience and good luck to those teaching 2nd!
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It sounds like you are doing a really great job with a very challenging situation!! Good Luck and hopefully things go well for your other lessons to come!!! You'll have to let us know how things are progressing with your management techniques and how they are responding to them as they get more used to it!
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