As future teachers we were asked to collaborate on lesson plans and teach them to a sixth grade science class. This at first seemed like a difficult thing do, because we had all be assigned groups in school and had that one member who did nothing or didn't show up. This could either be really good or really bad and I was nervous! I was excited when I found out who was in my group and I knew that it would be a good mix of ideas and excitement. We had met a lot to work on the lesson plans and each time we ended the meeting with all agreeing upon the same thing and this I think is important. Co-teaching with four other people is difficult enough so I think that the saying to agree to disagree but find a compromise fits this perfectly! We were able to compromise with each other and we had a blast meeting and go over and practicing the lessons.
The best part of the lesson planning was when we got to do the experiments to see if they worked in the classroom. This was a lot of fun and not everything we thought would work worked. It took us all thinking together to figure out how we could change things to make it work better.
Each member of the group brought something different to the table and I think that we did a good job of including every ones talents and ideas. As the time winds down to us teaching the pressure is more and more for it to be perfect. We are meeting more and more and practicing and going over the slides and what we will say and how we will say it and where we will stand. I am glad that we reached out to another professor on campus and had him watch us present our slides. He had a lot of great ideas of what we could do to make it better and ways to improve our information. I am so grateful that he took the time out to help us.
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