Learning Letter

This was probably one of my favorite classes I've taken because it made me think like a teacher. Other classes I've taken make me think about what I will have to think about once I become a teacher, but this class made me feel like I was already a teacher. I got to talk about books I've read that I thought would be great for my future students to relate to. I got to create a unit plan based on a play written by Shakespeare and that might have been my favorite part of the class. It was fun to think about what would be fun for students to do during the unit but what would also be a good way to get them to think. My favorite part of my unit plan was the final project. I figured students would have fun with making their own scripts based off the scenes we talked about during discussions. They would get to have fun with it because of how much sarcasm Shakespeare put into his plays. So, students could add in sarcasm based on language that they use every day with friends and family. If they are extroverted enough, maybe they'd even ham it up during the performance portion of the final project, and that would be awesome. I want my students to have fun in my class because when you are having fun while learning, you actually enjoy school. I know I'm not even a teacher yet, but I think this course helped me become a better one by the different discussions we had and the projects we had to complete. One of my favorite articles we read was Discussion as a Way of Teaching. I love discussions and the different tips and discussion strategies that are talked about in the article were amazing and I hope my future students will enjoy them as much as I like to envision that they will. I still don't feel like I'm ready to be a teacher, but I'm getting closer! I'm excited to get more practice in on lesson plans. I need to become better at explaining how students will or can do things during the sequenced instruction and adding more to lesson connections. Hopefully I can become better with research, too, I wasn't completely confident with my research, but it was fun looking up different activities and ways to teach Shakespeare. I enjoyed this class so much!