After my last lesson with the science experiment, I took all the advice my FA told me (and believe me, I needed it) and tried my best to work effectively on my next lesson. I did an art lesson creating 3-D shapes. The objective of this art lesson was to use one-point perspective, where all the lines move into space and meet at a single point. I think this lesson was much better compared to the last one. Even though, I thought this art lesson would be the one that I would worry about. The way I set up this lesson was to have my students’ undivided attention and wait for my instructions. I asked my students to have their hands on their laps and watch me do the first step. After doing the first step, I told my students to pick up their pencils and start creating their shapes around the paper. While they were doing that I went around and helped students if they needed further assistances. I continued to repeat the steps until the art project was done. We did run out of time, but got majority of it done. I think with this lesson I had more control, but yet, I still need more to work on. Again, what can students do while their done and waiting for other students to be finished. Or calling out, how to tell students that we do not call out, we raise our hand and wait patiently to be answered. My SA is an excellent mentor and provided me additional support on what I can do to improve. I told her to observe me on my management, since I still struggle with it. She gave me extra resources to help me prepare for my long term practicum and I must say I am really grateful that I have an amazing cohort, FA, and SA.

When my FA was observing me, I thought I was organized and prepared to teach my lesson to my class. I initially thought this would be my best lesson compare to the other lesson that I was going to teach later on (I was still feeling iffy about my second lesson). Unfortunately, my lesson didn’t go well the way I thought it would be. My lesson was a small science experiment using two different brands of gum. The purpose of the experiment was to see if the mass of the gum would decrease or increase when it is being chewed for few minutes. I think my lesson itself was not bad the students were extremely happy and they were able to finish the assignment in the given time. The problem was that I still struggle with management. I didn’t have a wait time, the students were calling out and I had no control of how to handle the situation. I guess I was nervous and I haven’t taught since October. It was a good wake up call, and glad that I taught before the long practicum, because I will definitely create lesson plans on classroom management with my students and implement couple of house keeping rules when I teach the class. I think this will be great, because students will know what I expect from them and vise versa. Moreover, I need to always have a plan B. This is because things happen and it may not go your way or if students are one step ahead what can they do while waiting for everyone to be on the same page. Furthermore, I will do this experiment again, but being more alert and aware of my surroundings.

Today’s reflection is about art and class management. My SA and I talked about potential art projects that I can do for my long-term practicum. We discussed were we can look for resources such as Pinterest. I had no idea that Pinterest will be my best friend when exploring for new ideas especially in the classroom. Thus, we talked about doing 3-D art, which is really cool and I can do a cross-curricular activity like Math. Since I will be teaching 2-3D geometry it will work perfectly with my art projects. I do, however, have a concern with two particular students. One of them does not like to do his homework at all, which can be frustrating, because you want all students to succeed. The other student is not able to self- control himself. He likes to talk over people and talk no matter what. Therefore, I don’t know how I will manage to take control over this situation since it will be the biggest challenge that I can think of so far. However, I know it will be rewarding at the end, once I get the hang of it.