Andrew Lab B

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." ~ Norman Vincent Peale 

Time Analysis

Lab B: the Demo Lab. What I believe hurt me most was the time that we were given. (Try to start with the positive, 10 minutes is 10 minutes, focus on the pedagogy. I do not think the time hurt you, maybe your fear of running out of time may have affected you?)Ten minutes may feel like an eternity the night before but when your up there and planning ten minutes before and during the lesson, it is the quickest amount of time you will experience. Once it ends, you feel like its just getting started. I told myself all night and all morning that I was going to stick to the time plan but it never seems to work out that way. A lot of my time was spent explaining the rules and whatnot and there was not enough time for people to be active. 42% of my time was spent in the management phase, probably because of my belief in my abilities to quickly explain to everyone a game and have everyone understand it. 28% was in the activity phase which relates to the high management phase percentage. What about waiting time? Its hard to find a balance for me because I want to make sure everyone understands what's going on but at the same, I need to make sure everyone is moving. Balancing everything is key. In Chapter 10, it talks about anticipating time and how teachers should identify how much time they spend on each task. That is so big in Lab B because what you write down and plan, it changes in the real life scenario. You need to be prepared.

C9

I feel like something that I did well going into Lab B was keeping my nerves in check. Everyone gets nervous, some at a higher level than others. I feel as though I am on a low level of nervousness coming into presentations especially Lab B because in my opinion, i don't believe the group of students your presenting yourself to, especially our 255 class, would be disrespectful towards a fellow peer. That may have happened in high school but I feel college students are way more mature and respectful towards people presenting because they know deep down they wouldn't want the same to happen to them. This helped the flow of my lesson in my opinion as that was one of the positives in my lesson. In Chapter 10, it also has a section called all-class activity. I struggled with this as well because it states that a class should be active for at least half of the class. This refers to Time Management. Struggling with time means that this was effected as well since I couldn't plan on the spot how things were going to go. I also need to work on my visual aid appearance, they were very hard to see from across the gym. Do not forget to discuss the lower part of C9. You as a teacher and professional. What are the strengths and weaknesses?

Transcript

When I was looking at my verbal transcript and my video, I realized that I talked way too much. This all ties into the time management form, my management phase was way too high because I felt like I needed to make sure everyone understood what was going on, which took up way too much time. I know I gave positive feedback to the class when they were dribbling in and out of cones but I couldn't make out what I said so I left it out of my transcript.Did you give specific feedback as well? Examples?

Peer Observer Form and Lesson Plan

I seemed to hit all of the points. Some things (use different word) on the peer observer form that I could work on would be the demonstration. It's kind of strange in a way that I talked too much and had way too much time in the management phase of my time analysis form but I need more demos.(try to combine talking and demos and use active demos, students do it with you) It's all about balancing each aspect of teaching and that is something I will have to work on for Lab C. My lesson plan was really smooth and fine tuned as it stated everything I had to do and the times I was going to give myself but it never seems to work out the way you want it.

Overall, I think I did a solid job. Practicing more would help me a lot because it will get me to grasp the whole idea of time management but hopefully, Lab C is more than 10 minutes.

Goals for Lab C

add a few goals here Andrew