Taking An Adventurous Semester

The first couple of weeks in this class was both interesting and fun.
Name tags was one thing that we did in the first day of class, Dr. Smirnova put us in groups to discuss our experiences with social studies. We also met in the Hudson library to go over technology that we would be using in the classroom. This was all new information to me. I've never seen or even tried this technology out before in my life but it was very interesting to get to try and explore new things. 
In the second class Dr. Smirnova shared video with us, it was called the vision of students today. 

Its amazing how students are different. 
We made creative T- Shirts and described a little about who we are as a person and the activities we like to do in our free time. We've been learning a lot about technology and completing different activities through the internet. A major role that we encountered was fieldwork. We have to teach the students lessons about business and what they have to learn to run a good business. Teaching these students is an important role throughout this course. As a class we will be teaching and showing the students different technology and instructions in making their own businesses. The first couple of weeks have been a little stressful but I know it will be worth it and get me prepared for future teaching. 

We learned as a class what it takes to make a good lesson plan and how to teach our students. We learned some new vocabulary to help us. Development was the first. To break it down more the words that followed were demonstration and modeling. Demonstration is showing the students something and modeling is showing and having them think about the activity being taught. You always want to ask the students questions. Get them engaged and prepared for what they're going to be learning. We always want to keep the students on track throughout the lesson. Other vocabulary that we learned was independent practice which was for the students to work alone and have them prove themselves on their mastery on the lesson. Your first goal is the content. Second goal is the thinking and reasoning. Social interaction plays a big role through the lesson. You want the students to have good social skills between both the teacher and their peers. 
Closure in the lesson wraps everything up and it's important to know how well the lesson helped the students worked both as a group with students by sharing ideas and coming together. We also want to watch and see how the student worked independently and prove to the teacher that they understood the lesson and mastered it. 
Throughout these short couple of weeks we've learned a lot in this course already and I'm excited to see what were going to overcome together as a class and how well we'll  be prepared and ready for the future.