I learned pretty quickly that it isn’t a good idea to plan too casually, even for things that seem trivial to do (perhaps this is slightly less true for more experienced teachers). It’s easy to picture in your mind the way something will be done without seeing the pitfalls and logistical hurdles. I had it in my mind that I could just draw the ruler up on the board and call on students to come up and show their answers. It quickly became obvious that this method would be very time consuming and was overkill for this assignment. I switched to just calling on students for their answer and seeing if there was agreement. Even this felt tedious and slow, and I could tell that everyone was getting impatient. It was a little difficult to get people to volunteer answers, and when they did, they spoke very softly.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
September 21: Ruler review
The teacher had a morning meeting so I worked solo with the class for the first 30 minutes or so. No issues getting started really. The first task was to review the homework (measuring lines) and have everybody grade themselves.
I learned pretty quickly that it isn’t a good idea to plan too casually, even for things that seem trivial to do (perhaps this is slightly less true for more experienced teachers). It’s easy to picture in your mind the way something will be done without seeing the pitfalls and logistical hurdles. I had it in my mind that I could just draw the ruler up on the board and call on students to come up and show their answers. It quickly became obvious that this method would be very time consuming and was overkill for this assignment. I switched to just calling on students for their answer and seeing if there was agreement. Even this felt tedious and slow, and I could tell that everyone was getting impatient. It was a little difficult to get people to volunteer answers, and when they did, they spoke very softly.
I learned pretty quickly that it isn’t a good idea to plan too casually, even for things that seem trivial to do (perhaps this is slightly less true for more experienced teachers). It’s easy to picture in your mind the way something will be done without seeing the pitfalls and logistical hurdles. I had it in my mind that I could just draw the ruler up on the board and call on students to come up and show their answers. It quickly became obvious that this method would be very time consuming and was overkill for this assignment. I switched to just calling on students for their answer and seeing if there was agreement. Even this felt tedious and slow, and I could tell that everyone was getting impatient. It was a little difficult to get people to volunteer answers, and when they did, they spoke very softly.
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