Micro-Teaching at Bald Eagle High School
On November 12th-15th Brooke Ostrander, Beth Winklosky, and I were scheduled for one day of observation and three days of teaching at Bald Eagle High School with Mr. Biddle. I would be teaching three days of public speaking with their Agriculture Leadership class. Completing a leadership development event is a requirement of the course for all students to participate in.
I had the opportunity to work with the students on learning what ethos, logos, and pathos (rhetoric devices) were and how to use them in speeches. Unfortunately on the last day, our lessons were canceled with the first snow day of the year.
Somethings I learned:
- Balancing the pace of student work is difficult, but not impossible, students that process information faster can aid in helping other students learn.
- Bell-to-Bell class learning is highly enforced, if you don't have anymore planned work move on to the next day's activities.
- Student's misbehavior may not be deliberate or malicious, it may be them genuinely having fun while learning (I still am not quit sure how to handle this)
- Classroom flexibility is critical, weather and other issues will arise and push your classwork backward.
Lisa, as you get to know your students, you will learn what constitutes deliberate misbehavior, and how students act when they are having fun. Once this happens, you will be able to determine how to address the behavior and which classroom procedures to follow.
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