Today’s lesson did not go as planned. I do think it was still successful. The reason it didn’t go as planned was because the students took much more time to finish writing their drafts than I had expected. The students did not even know how to right justify their names or the date. They also needed help double spacing their writing. I did not anticipate that this much instruction would be necessary. Also, it seems as if they have had no keyboarding practice since most students were typing with two fingers. The teacher generally expects the students to turn in typed copies of their final drafts. Because of this, I changed around my lesson and made sure to make time for this. It ended up taking the entire 90min period. Some students finished early and read independently but I didn’t get to do a reading lesson at all today.
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I feel as though the day was sort of a lazy day on my end because I didn’t know where the computer lab was, the rules of the lab or the expectations that the classroom teacher had for printing final drafts. Because of this, he did a lot of the directions before we moved to the lab. I did model the way the students should be formatting their papers and we both circulated the room throughout the lesson to help students make corrections and add details. Many students are very proud of their works. I can’t wait till they share them tomorrow in class. This day also gave me extra time to re-think my lesson for tomorrow and I am excited to teach using the new ideas that I have come up with.
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