Beginning To Get The Minds Rolling

The second day in the field was even better than the first. Our group was more confident and ready to begin teaching the class of 4th graders. We had started reviewing the vocabulary from the first day to make sure that the students remembered the words that we went over from the previous lesson, for example words like profit, expenses, and revenue. It was important that the students remembered these terms because they needed them to make their movies later in the future. 
Once we went over the words as a group we then split the class up into four groups and had them research and answer questions on specific movie companies and movie questions that we had researched as teachers. We explained to the students that research was a major part of business. Each of the students had specific roles that we assigned them, for example a writer, time keeper, a person to keep the group on track and focused , a person to give good positive feedback, a speaker and a manager who collected the information folder from the teacher. This was important to give the students because they each had their own responsibilities to the assignment and stayed focused on what their job was to do. Once the students did their research and answered the questions correctly the speaker came up to the front of the class and read aloud the answers they came up with. 
I believed this lesson that we did with the students really helped them with both researching and speaking in front of their classmates. It got the students thinking on movie companies and specific movie information theat they might have never known before.  
As for the group of teachers for the second day I think we did very well once again being the first group to go and had both a  more confident feeling walking into the classroom.