Reflecting on my Teaching Experience I wanted to take a moment and say I had the opportunity to teach alongside some wonderful future teachers. My fellow classmates and I worked great with one another. We all cooperated very well with one another. While creating our lesson plans we all pitched ideas and we were able to come up with one unanimous decision on what we would do. When it came to doing all the work for the lessons such as creating the powerpoint, independent practices, writing the lesson plans we all shared the work and held our own, nobody did more work than someone else. It was very different compared to my teaching experience from last semester. However, while teaching this semester I felt my teachers and I had very good control over the class, we held them to the same expectations that the teacher would hold them to. We never ran out of time while conducting our lessons, we have been the only group to conduct all 3 of our lessons start to finish including al...
Today I had the opportunity to teach a direct lesson instruction to Bishop Dunn's second grade classroom. The topic of my instruction was "A Trip to the Bank." Throughout this lesson we discussed the terms associated with the bank. For instance, we explained what saving and spending are and how they are different. We also explained what a deposit and withdrawal are and when you need to go about those actions. We gave the definitions of loan, taxes and interest. We conducted check for understandings after every 2 slides, which ended up being about after every 4 terms. These brain breaks are used for us teachers to be able to assess the kid's knowledge on the information we just gave them. After our last brain break we did two different guided practices with the kids. The kids really seemed to enjoy the matching. Although we made some mistakes while conducting the guided practices the point still got across to them. After our guided practices we had our closure which was one last brain break. During this brain break we had more questions to ask the students to really find out if they understand the topic. To conclude this lesson one of my teachers went over what independent means. This was out transition into our independent practice. The entire class did a good job working on the worksheet independently. While the entire class was working on the independent practice us teachers walked around the classroom keeping all the students in check and finishing their work. Overall I believe the lesson went really well. We were the first group to conduct all parts of the lesson within the 40 minutes. We did a great job on our time management and keep the class under control. I'm very proud and happy of our control and how the first lesson teaching went today! 
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