Ms. Walker's "Wise" Tales

The readings definitely gave me a lot to think about from the first day to effective ways to teach to planning. Here are some of the questions I have.... To my future students... What was your favorite/most memorable day of school? What did the teacher do to help make it the best day possible for you? To my cooperating teacher and university supervisor What is the best plan of attack to write lesson plans and planning for students you do not truly know or know what to expect? How do you predict skill level, behavior, etc.? To my virtual mentors and cohort... The one reading discusses the principles of teaching and learning and talks about motivation and success and how they can be connected. With that being said, how can we provide activities that are challenges for our students to push them to grow with still promoting success to help them stay motivated? As an educator, how can we balance these two things?

Woah, it's literally the first week and they are having us teach... wild but that's what we were here for right?!? Anyway, for my first quick mini lesson I taught about origami and how to make an origami butterfly. I felt very out of my comfort zone cause I have never done origami but it was actually fun to learn something new and teach it. It went pretty well I would say, always room to grow, but not a complete train wreck. Here's the play by play: After many failed attempts behind the sets. I showed up to my lab and taught the lesson. I demonstrated a step by step of how to make the butterfly while I had my "students" follow along with their own papers. After that we reviewed the steps and then I gave the task of them of making the butterfly and that went okay most of them were able to make them which was pretty encouraging. One main takeaway from this lab was that having a visual can be helpful so while I demonstrated the steps I think it would have been