I did not do as well as I hoped, but at least I passed which is the main thing. But it is really annoying and frustrating knowing that you could have done better. It was last period of the day, with a class that any teacher would have difficulty with. I am disapointed with my lesson content because I had spent ages on it and it did not go down as well as I had hoped. In actual fact, I thought it was utter crap and I am really disapointed with myself. On the positive side, my tutor did notice improvements in my behaviour management and ascertiveness, although they still need a lot of work. It is a good sign that I am showing improving, even although I never got any merits this time, it is always something to work on.
The things that I have learnt from this lesson are:
- To be more explicit with my instructions. Even 13/14 year olds have difficulty following basic tasks, so make sure you keep things simple.
- 13/14 year olds like competition.
- Try not to incorporate too many things in one lesson. Stick to one context, because anything more just confuses them.
- Keep them busy, idle minds makes chatty and distruptive children.
- I NEED TO BE THE BOSS.
- I AM THE TEACHER.
Another point today, my kids in a different class asked me my age. I lied and now have them thinking that I am a really young looking 29 year old. At least they think that I am much much older than them now. It really amused me.
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What did you do to deserve a last period slot for a Crit? Never mind - next time surely you'll have earned period 2 or some such and will be able to show off what you've learned.
Glad your tutor noted improvements - and I like your notes to self about being the teacher!
From Ewan via an email to me. (For reasons that will be obvious when you reach the end of his message :-)}
Can you get this to her?:
Love the self-motivation stuff: I AM THE TEACHER. I AM THE BOSS.
I stick them next to my mirror so that I see them every morning. (No, really, I don't, and wouldn't recommend it).
I love your blog. Going to get an RSS feed so that I can subscribe? Ask Uncle David for help - apparently it's simple, though. ;-)
She needs to toggle Blogger prefs so that I can comment, as a non Blogger user.
This is David again. The RSS feed thing is a peculiarity of Blogger. It provides an Atom feed which is a rival system to RSS (sort of) that does the same kind of thing. I subscribe to your blog through Bloglines but not all feed readers can cope with Atom. For this reason, I added an RSS feed to my blog with Feedburner. This isn't exactly "simple", but there's a fairly good guide on the Feedburner site. Give me a shout if you want help or a quick Feedburner tutorial.
I am a retired computing teacher, so I was pleased to see that earlier on you have learnt the lesson not to incorporate too many things.
New teachers have a habit of telling a class everything they know on the topic. Only tell them what they need to know and KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).
Don't over prepare. You are a teacher, not a lecturer. Teaching should be interactive and go with the flow of the pupils'understanding.
Bob says: "Only tell them what they need to know and KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)"
My emphasis in the above quote - but it looks like Bob knows Lesley. :-)
(Just kidding.. You can apply to me for a Fredo as compenstation if you have been psychologically damaged by this comment.)
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