Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Student Teaching Week 9

March 14-18

This was a pretty normal week. Mr. Beck was gone on Tuesday the 15 so I had a sub that sat in on my classes. It was a nice feeling when the day was over and I realized that the students had to depend on me alone and I did not let any of them down. Our environmental team made it to the state contest. I also got some experience in Parliamentary Procedure. I ended up having to learn right along with my students. This made it a fun challenge for me because I always wanted to stay a little ahead of them in learning the concepts and different motions.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Student Teaching Week 8

March 7-11

This week I finished an Animal Science unit with my Introduction to Agriculture class. This class on every Friday will learn something about FFA. In my 8th grade class I finished the unit on Agriculture is: and started a unit on Animal Science. The Horticulture class learned the plant parts and did some stem cuttings. They also planted some seeds that will be sold later at their plant sale. My birthday was on Thursday so Mr. Beck brought in treats for all of our classes. Overall it was a good week.

Student Teaching Week 7

February 28 - March 4

Trimester two ended on wednesday and we started trimester three on thursday. I spent most of the week getting all my grades in and figuring out my class roster. I had the pleasure of taking my first trip with a few students on my own. I ended up taking five seniors to the Farm Show at UNI. We sold rafel tickets for the FFA Organization. I attended my second prof. development. They are alot like taking a college class for a day.

Student Teaching Week 6

February 21-25

During this week I taught my first 21 Century lesson on budgeting to my Animal Science class. I started out talking about personal budgets and then transformed it into livestock budgets. A few of my students realized they were spending way to much of their income on clothes at this time and that if they kept it up they would not be able to afford to live on their own when they graduate this spring. We also had our FFA contest at Hawkeye on Wednesday. I helped with the job interview contest. Our parliamentary procedure, public speaking, and creed speaker made it to the next level.