Reflection On Fieldwork

For my fieldwork lesson I found that I did a number of things right and there were a number of things I can do better. The lesson was given on April 25 and I taught a lesson on Athens’ limited democracy to a class of sixth graders at Herbert Hoover Middle School. I taught the lesson for Neal Cates who will be my master teacher next semester. In the past, I had observed his class a number of times, so I understood the format of his class and what he tried to teach his students on a daily basis. As a quick break down, Mr. Cates teaches a historical thinking skill, literacy skills, and has collaborative learning in every class I had observed. Since, Mr. Cates has all of these elements in every lesson that he teaches I knew that it would be an easy transition for me to teach a class that had the

Cates utilizes. Then, I called on six different students to read the questions for the class. Following the reading of the questions, I began the learning strategy of think, pair, share and gave the students 15 minutes to read through the chapter individually and answer the 6 questions on the front of graphic organizer. During this time I instructed the students to raise their hands if they had any questions and I would help them. Additionally, I walked around the class insuring the students were on task. The most classroom management techniques that I had to do was stand by a student who did not seem on task and if a student was talking I asked them if they had a question I could answer for them. After the students had fulfilled the individual part of the think, pair, share I instructed the students to collaborate with their think, pair, share partners for 5 minutes on the same 6 questions. After the pair aspect of the think, pair, share I brought the class back together and asked students to raise their hands to answer what they got for the six questions on the