Today was seemingly much more successful than last week. I felt like the students were pretty engaged and enjoying the lesson. The lesson plan was to talk about languages they had heard of, then play games to learn a few spanish words from the PBS Kids website "Oh Noah!" and then share a few words they learned in spanish. I had hoped we could spend some time with power point and make a poster on a slide, but we ended up having K-3rd graders (24 kids) and it was just too broad and would have taken a lot of instructional time. Our classroom management was definitely improved from last week, I felt like I was helping kids and not overwhelmed with questions. We did pre-load the pages this time which made a huge difference. Something that did help this week was one of the student teachers came and helped facilitate the lesson.
I think the age range has really provided the biggest challenge for us. It has just been difficult to plan lessons when the knowledge and basic computer skills are on such a broad spectrum with the students.
Overall, a really good day and I was able to take away some more goals on classroom management and keeping the kids engaged with age appropriate activities.
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