ERT and Lesson Planning
Today was a very productive and busy day, my CT was out for the day and the students had a substitute teacher that is a regular at the school and all the students know him. I was only in class for a few minutes when the substitute asked me if I wanted to teach ERT, I said sure why not so I took 5 minutes to go over the story, prepare my thoughts and write some useful questions on a post it note. I had never taught during ERT but I tried to make it as interactive as I could. The story being read had character parts so I decided to pick random Popsicle sticks to see who would read and act out that part. Overall it went well and the students did enjoy the story and I felt they understood the story. They might not be very well at writing it out but they can explain it back to you if you ask them too. On Friday I went to school even though it was an off day for the students I knew this was an opportunity to help my CT organize and clean up a little and so we could plan for next week because during the week time is limited for planning. I was able to plan for next week so I could teach two math lessons one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Today was a very productive and busy day, my CT was out for the day and the students had a substitute teacher that is a regular at the school and all the students know him. I was only in class for a few minutes when the substitute asked me if I wanted to teach ERT, I said sure why not so I took 5 minutes to go over the story, prepare my thoughts and write some useful questions on a post it note. I had never taught during ERT but I tried to make it as interactive as I could. The story being read had character parts so I decided to pick random Popsicle sticks to see who would read and act out that part. Overall it went well and the students did enjoy the story and I felt they understood the story. They might not be very well at writing it out but they can explain it back to you if you ask them too. On Friday I went to school even though it was an off day for the students I knew this was an opportunity to help my CT organize and clean up a little and so we could plan for next week because during the week time is limited for planning. I was able to plan for next week so I could teach two math lessons one in the morning and one in the afternoon.