Today, the first group stepped up to the plate (teach) and taught their direct lesson in a fifty minute time frame. The first group taught all about merchants and markets during the medieval times. Being that this lesson was taught to a fourth grade class at Saint Joseph's, my colleagues had to accommodate their lesson to the fourth grade standards.
I found that the whole group taught well together as a whole. Each teacher candidate walked around making sure all the students were on track and paying attention. This lesson was definitely interactive and engaging for the students. Being that this was the first lesson, the students were a little hard to control because this was the first time the rules had to be established.
While my colleagues were teaching. the rest of the class sat in the back of the room and observed everything that they were doing. We took notes on how they engaged the students and how they opened and closed the lesson, for example. I learned a lot from observing in the back of the classroom.
All in all, the first group did a phenomenal job! It's not easy going first!
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