First Time Teaching

I taught 4-5 groups of students in our class couple weeks ago. I talked about this with my mentor teacher from a long time ago. I wanted to teach the relevant materials. Students came school to learn and practice their knolwedge, therefore, it was more than just completing my assignments and practice how to teach students. I wanted them to learn and review the material at least.

My mentor recommended me to teach half-life which they have not learned yet. My mentor provided me some worksheets that I could use, and suggested couple of activities that I can choose from.

After that, I read textbook/materials over and over even though I knew the concepts. However, I didn't want to make mistakes and hope to do well since it was my first time to teach. I carefully decided activities and prepared/checked.

I made extra copies and also made the back-up plans. I thought everything would go well as I plan.

However, I actually could not even finish my activity and the students had difficult times to follow my direction because I could not give a sufficient information to follow. I asked myself, "why....".

After the first hour, I kept thinking about what I did wrong and where I needed to work on. I talked with my mentor about it and tried to find the way to get right.

Then, I reduced reviewing time... and not tried to do so many things at a time. Then, I consicely moved onto next activity.

yeah~~~!! things were worked out well. It was not the best but I could finish the activity and had chances to talk about it with the students.

I learned so many things from here. Teaching wasn't easy. It was not only about what to teach...BUT, HOW to teach! I found where I need to work on.