-Today I did a SmartNotebook presentation abut latitude and longitude. At first I thought I was just doing the activity to go along with the lesson, but Mike asked me to explain a little bit about lat and long as well. Thinking about what to say for those first few slides was actually pretty difficult. I thought I would get confused pretty easily about the East West North South nonsense. Luckily I only had one moment where that stopped.
- Apparently I still need to slow down. I really liked having the kids draw what the plain was supposed to look like and I think they liked it too. However, the class is still not talking a whole lot unless they are up and moving.
- I had six students come up to the board and draw a point where the coordinate was and Mike and the kids did actually really like that
- I think I talked a little bit too quickly about the beginning.
- I also thought I repeated the concept of the Equator and the Prime Meridian a little too much
- Again with relating it to them, I could have made the points that they found something that they already knew like the mountains, etc.
- For future hands on things I will probably give even more specific directions and probably try to model.
- A balance has to be found in between modeling and providing it on the smartboard.
- I'm starting to get the feeling that there are students who talk and students who do not talk. I wish that I knew their names better so that I could help out with the calling on non volunteers but this is something that will definitely come with time.
I need to work on talking too fast and going over concepts too quickly. I need to find a better chemistry with the kids so that they want to talk more and not simply give me the answers. Dylan (who I don't believe belongs in this class) and Kayla (who is in band) always raise their hands. I want to give them praise and bring the others up but I do not actually know how.
During the Reteach I felt like they already knew what I was talking about. Although I felt like we were being redundant, I think that this is a good habit to get into thought for the kids. I would like to do something that is very picture and discussion based at the beginning of class. I don't know if this is something that fits into the standards for a bell ringer though- does it need to be a little quiz? Ask Mike
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