Hello friends! So this week was a big day because I taught my first lesson, which was a science lesson about the colors sequence in the rainbow. For my lesson, I incorporated two science experiments so that the students can have a more science feel to the lesson and that it is not only coloring and making rainbows. Before conducting the experiment, I read a book to the students and asked them questions to see how much they knew about the topic. It was interesting to hear some responses that I heard because many of the students skipped the color indigo and went straight to violet. I clarified to the students what indigo is and where it is located in the rainbow so that when it comes to the other activities, they won’t miss that color in the rainbow since my objective is to have the students assessmble the colors in the correct color order in the rainbow. After that, I conducted the experiment, had the students create hypotheses, and recorded their data of what they observed when I conducted it. The students were very engaged and loved the activity, but I lost them because they became loud and weren’t listening to the directions. Once that started to happen, I tried to roll them in and redirect them, but the students weren’t listening until my MT stepped in.
I feel my classroom management skills need more work because I couldn’t control the classroom. I assessed myself and realized that in order for me to be able to control the classroom better, I feel that I need to speak a lot more in the classroom and give more directions during instruction time, so that the students can get used to me redirecting them during learning time.
Another thing that I felt that the students were struggling with and I shouldn’t have used was my science worksheet because they weren’t writing on it. Some kept asking me how to spell words and where to write the information in which section, which made it chaotic. Looking back and reflecting, I think I should’ve used that type of science experiment and the data-collecting process for older students because I had a lot of students being confused.
Now that I got to experience my first teaching, I would better prepare myself for the next lesson and prevent what happened in this lesson from happening in the next one. The next lesson plan is a math lesson where students learn more about 3D shapes.
Here are some pictures of what I’ve read and what the students created!
