I taught two lessons this week at my practicum site. The first one was on the Black Death, and the second one was on Renaissance art. For my first lesson, the students behaved exceptionally well--the best I have seen at my school yet. Based on that, I had high hopes for today, which was the lesson that Dr. Cook was at.
Unfortunately, the students played the "defiance" card on me. When I divided students into groups (which I had to modify on the spot because a student got sent to the office during our opening bell work), two of the boys decided to go to different groups--they simply changed the number that I had given to them. When I tried to get them to go with their original groups, both refused. They wound up getting behavioral marks for defiance, but that was definitely something that I did not need to deal with. I recovered and the lesson went fine, although it could have been better. Students did not behave well this time, with a couple exceptions.
For some reason, I was not a bit nervous about teaching either lesson. By all rights, I should have been...I had never taught a social studies lesson before Tuesday, and I am teaching in an environment that I am not comfortable in at all. I was not nervous at all (even with Dr. Cook comnig in), and I think I handled myself well. If something went wrong, I was able to get back on track quickly enough, and my cooperating teacher was there for support as well.
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