Class week 10

Rachel and I worked on our lessons together. We spent a long time talking about the parts that did or did not work. For both of us it was interesting that the plans made perfect sense, but the other did not know what we meant until we showed her. It was not a case of bad plans, but a problem with wording. For example, I knew "write a paragraph as a class" meant that the teacher would ask for ideas and then form them into sentences on the board as a practice for the assignment. This was not clear to Rachel. This way when I revise I can add details to my description in the lesson plan.

We also talked about whether this was a lesson we would ask a sub to do. We agreed that for both of our lessons that we would have subs do parts of them, but not all of them. There are things that we need to make sure are learned in a specific way to ensure understanding (vocabulary etc) but some of the background work is more flexible. A sub could talk about pets with the class and ask them to bring in an object or picture of a pet they have or would like to have. Then the regular teacher would be able to focus on the body parts.