Education 312 Post #1

First after receiving the topic I will be teaching, I try to break up my lesson into three parts. I have learned breaking it into three parts gives the students a break and a change of pace so they can pay attention easier. I find it easiest to start with a power point to introduce a topic and they move on to others things that involve the students more. The more the students are involved the more they will pay attention. Over the past three weeks I have noticed that my teacher also likes to break up her lessons and use three to four outside sources. So far in my new classroom I have taught one lesson but I did not create the lesson. My teacher created the lesson plan and it was similar to something I would like to create. She had a few of the students read out aloud. I spoke with her after and she said that try to pick students to read that you know will read clearly and loud enough for all the students to hear.

In the two classes I was in last semester one was a normal class and the other was a special education class. In the special education class I had to try to involve the students more and break down questions so that each student understood and could give their opinion. On the power point slides I was able to go the same speed with each class. This could have been because the students didn't have to write anything down all they had to do was listen. Since I have only taught one lesson so far this semester I have gotten to know the students only a little bit but it is similar to last semester. The first class needs to be forced to do things more than the second class. The second class is interesting because it is the same subject as the first class but it is twice the size and it is a honors class. In the classroom I have used power point and DvD clips so far this semester.

Learner centered means that a student or group of students can learn something on their own. A teacher can teach these students a few times how to do something and they will pick up on it easily. Most of these students cannot teach other students how they learn it so quickly because they just know it and cannot explain it.