Glogster

Student Teaching!

Since I started this blog last summer, I've been quite busy. I've spent the past school year in a French classroom at Southern Guilford High School. It's a great group of kids and I am learning so much from my lead teacher. I think she may even be learning a little from me, too, so it's great! Just these past few weeks, I taught my first lesson plan that I wrote and designed entirely by myself, and I think it went pretty well. I say that in the sense that, I was able to distinguish what is working and what is not, and was able to adjust accordingly. The Go Fish game I created for them was a real hit, and the oral exams went much smoother than I had expected, too. I created the plan using backward design, and it was based on Chapter 3 of Allez-Viens, which is a chapter based on food and holidays. It worked out well, because it also overlapped with both Mardi Gras and Dr. Seuss's birthday. I even read them Green Eggs and Ham - Les Oeufs Verts au Jambon and did a little activity with it! It was fun! It was amazing how a group of high school kids can hang on to every word of a Dr. Seuss book!

One other thing I've done is help establish a blog for my lead teacher. We are trying to incorporate more technology in the classroom, so we've been assigning the kids a weekly task of commenting on our posts at the blog, which is at . They've also created Voki's, like mine, and have assignments making their Voki's talk. They really seemed to like it at first, though the interest is slowly waning. I think the kids are so used to technology, it is not as novel to them as it is for us!