My First Lesson Teaching 5th grade !

     My First Lesson Teaching 5th grade !

    Today was my first day of student teaching.  I worked with Emily, and Olivia, we were group 3.  Our direct instruction lesson plan went very well.  Before we had our lesson we met with our teacher Dr Smirnova, she gave us some corrections as well as suggestions to fix before we taught.  Those improvements defiantly made our lesson so much smoother and came across very nicely.  We just like group 2 used pear deck for our direct lesson.  This was a great way to gauge if the students are following along with our lesson, and what to change if they are not.  The students were very active and defiantly participated with us which made it so much easier to teach.  We went over the five civilizations as well as explorers and artifacts.  The students had some prior knowledge about the topics, because they would jump in and add facts as we were teaching.  


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