The past two days I have been able to experience different classroom environments. I decided to drop into one of the sixth grade Social Studies classes, taught by Mr. Hagan. The class was preparing for an economics project and going over specific terms that would help them succeed throughout the project. I will be assisting the students throughout their project design and during the actual event. This project is a special one for the sixth graders in that it is an interdisciplinary activity. The courses that will be used are English, Math, Social Studies, and Science. Each group comes up with an item to sell and must act as managers of their item. Below is a list of the courses and some aspects of each of them...
English: Creativity/Development (A poster for advertisment)
Math: Money/Budget (Pricing of products)
Social Studies: Economics/Proposals (Mainly background)
Science: Sanitation/Safety
During Mr. Hagan's class, the students learned the different concepts of Economics with a teaching process by Dr. Mark Forget (pronounced forzháy). Mr. Hagan twisted Forget's idea of an anticipation guide with a True and False guide. The teacher goes over with the class whether or not a statement is true or false. Then the students must pick out certain words or phrases that will help them decide true or false. Lastly, they must prove it. I thought this was an interesting and also very productive way of teaching the lesson and teaching the students a new tool.
Today I was given a lesson from my math teacher I am shadowing, Mrs. Zampini. The lesson revolves around linear functions, graphing them, x and y intercepts, etc. She would like me to come up with a lesson plan by next Monday and be able to teach the class. I am a little bit nervous but very excited to be the teacher!
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