This week has been a week full of teaching! Not that I really think listening to the 20 minute lessons of each person in the class is fun, it is good to hear the comments and feedback of each lesson. It seems like have learned more from the mistakes/teaching methods of others than I have from the actual teaching experience.
I did get the chance this week to teach about STL #20. I thought the lesson went really well and got some really positive feedback. I taught a short lesson on how to read a set of working construction drawings. I think the hardest part about it was narrowing the lesson down to twenty minutes. While preparing I realized that I could easily have turned this lesson into a two week unit. Luckily I found that out before I started teaching and had some time to prepare a good lesson. So far that has been the biggest difference in each of the lessons shared. It really shows who has prepared and who has just gone up there thinking they can wing it. Honestly I spent 2 hours getting the activity ready and making sure that it makes sense.
I have to admit that I was still pretty nervous about the actual teaching, but I think i was able to settle in and just teach alot sooner than previous attempts. Overall I felt it was a good lesson. Feekback from Geoff = draw a bigger example on the board... and he was right. After I turned around and looked I had drawn an example fascia that was about a centimeter tall. Ha Ha.
This weeks funny note, how to deal with the class know it all...
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