Reflection

We taught our first lesson today in our field experience. It went pretty well. Our supervisor was there to observe us. The trickiest thing was that we reserved the lap top labs so the students could type their paragraph in the word processor, but the lesson took so much longer than we thought it would. We have to finish the lesson in the AM but we don't have the lab reserved so the students will have to write on paper and HOPEFULLY type the next time we've reserved the lab. We might have to squish things together. I don't want to delete things from our plan --ugh-- because we worked so hard to meet the requirements for all of our classes, so we can't leave out any technology, creative arts, or primary sources. But our teacher is a language arts/math teacher so we need our reading and writing activities too. Well we'll see.
Our cooperating teacher is wonderful. He's very helpful and flexible. We haven't started our interviews yet, and are hoping to be able to work on them after we teach our last lesson.