Today was a good day. I taught the first day of the
Great Pumpkin unit. Now this for me was not a traditional type of activity I am
used to teaching. It is a type of tag game that does not really have any type
of skills objective, but the one thing that it most certainly has is
cardiovascular and muscular properties. I performed this activity with some of
the students and I can attest for these properties in the severe burn I had in
my legs and chest after I did it. It was quite the workout! The great part about
it was that it was a workout disguised in a fun activity. The students did not
even know that they were exercising until they left the gymnasium dripping in
sweat. To start the day I observed my host teacher in the instruction of this
lesson. In the later classes I taught every aspect of the activity. Now I was
teaching two classes, one I barely knew and another I did not know at all
because one of the teachers was not in. To say the least this made teaching
today quite interesting. My host teacher had really big expectations for me at
first and wanted every part of my lesson to be perfect, but it was somewhat
difficult because I never taught the lesson before and I was teaching students
that looked at me like I was basically a substitute, and in this type of
atmosphere that is not a good thing. I felt as though I did well considering,
and he soon came to say that I did good as well. At first though I was nervous
my teaching was not up to par. Tomorrow though is another day and I have one
more chance to perfect this lesson. My highlight of the day was my A.P.E.
class. The student in that class always seems to make my day better, and it was
a positive ending for an up and down day.
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