Survey for child emotional intelligence
Feb 15, 2012
I'm certified for English / Language Arts 6-12, but the lesson plans I've written for middle school and high school so far have not been so great. I don't know if other beginning teachers have this problem, but I've found that I usually experience a great deal of difficulty when executing lesson plans that I have written. I don't really know what causes this, but I suspect it's lack of familiarity with the students' prior knowledge. I expect students to know the material already, so I don't spend a lot of time covering it. My presentations are sometimes fancy and confusing, and I'm not really sure how to break things down for the lower students.
Also, I sometimes have difficulty explaining what I know to students, especially if it's already in their textbooks. I guess I'm thinking that they've already read it. It would be redundant to go over it again. Most students find it boring to look up answers in the textbook, though.
Although I think I'm gettin...See More
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My first advice is to give pre-assessments. I also found it very confusing my first year of teaching that I did not know what my students already knew. Before ...See More