blog 16

Blog 16:
1. What issues arose as you tested your lesson plans?
2. Why did these issues arise?
3. Can you ever fully anticipate every detail of the situation you will be working in?
4. What role does planning play in a responsive teaching approach?
5. After reading Chapter 19, do you need to modify your plans to address safety issues?

1. The biggest problem I had with my plan was to keep the students engaged and excited about the parts of the ‘lesson’ that were not games. I should have kept the ‘lecture’ short to match their attention spans.
2. These issues arose because 10,11,12 year olds don’t have the patience to sit in the floor and describe the good and bad features of 13 of their peers’ drawings.
3. Fully anticipation is unreal. There are far too many variables in real life to be prepared for every possibility. However, thematic reactions to a situation can be anticipated.
4. Planning is essential in any teaching environment. Without a general plan there would be no guarantees about what topics are discussed and what the students are actually subjected to. Although it may be beneficial to deviate from the plan once and a while in order to facilitate the students’ own initiative, walking into a teaching situation without a proposed outcome or intended process can lead, quickly, to pandemonium.
5. I believe my plans were totally safe. There was no serious risk of physical injury, as for emotional injury, my activities were not embarrassing in nature or beyond the children’s grasp developmentally.