Second Group

 Introducing Group 2!

Oh it's me and Justin and Amanda.

What can I say about being Group 2, teaching a whole class instruction?
It's insanity at its finest. I guess I could say that. I could also say that I learned what kind of work goes into preparing a lesson, strengthening my teacher voice and leaning very hard on my partners.

We were saddled with Life Science which sounds all fun and games but IT IS NOT. Life Science is not strictly about pack animals like one of us seemed to think (me), but about the dichotomous key and habitats and gene splitting. WHAT.

Let's move on.

Justin came up with our lesson and found a great idea to launch off of, Harry Potter's Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and the dichotomous key. It was great, it was intense and tedious and gross and fun.

WHYYYYY

Preparing was a nightmare. I also take Methods Social Studies with Dr. S and what I had been praying against all semester came true: I had to conduct a whole class lesson back to back, and start fieldwork for my third class. I didn't cry once this semester but I definitely broke a few things (RIP calculator). On top of that, we had endless snow days on Tuesdays only, which is how that perfect storm of stress came about in the first place.

By the time our whole class lesson came to fruition it felt like I had been held in a holding cell for years on end. It was years, right?

Once Justin and I got in-front of the classroom it all fell into place. We knew our Unit Plan so well that it was like trying on an old coat. We knew that the elbows needed mending and that the blue clashed with the plaid but we were rocking it. And I can say I feel that we did.

We missed a huge step, like the bottom step of a stair case, when we forgot to go through the steps of the Scientific Method, but we recovered from our fumble as gracefully as we could. By the end of the whole saga, we were happy with out result.