Rounding Mixed Decimals to the Nearest Tenth
Collaboration Essay
For this essay I will be giving my thoughts and feeling about how important it is to collaborate with others as you create your lesson plans for your students. Collaborating with other teachers is essential. I was taught that one pair of eyes do a good job; several sets of eyes do a fantastic job. While I was looking over the standards that I wanted to use for my lesson I was very aware that there may be several standards in several subjects that I may be utilizing in my lesson. As I talked with the host teacher she was impressed that I used more than subject’s standards to create and present my lesson. I also learned that by collaborating with the host teacher, she was able to give me a little insight as to the things her students would enjoy and things that probably wouldn’t go over that well with her students. Having this information only helped me more to know how to help them to be able to have the opportunity to learn and to be comfortable in class.
As I watched the video for this particular lesson, I was impressed how both of the teachers were able to recall and help one another with different activities they had planned for their units. They were very open and seemed to want to help one another create the best units they could. I think that they showed that collaborating with another teacher or team can be very beneficial instead of hindering. I pre-scheduled a time to talk with my host teacher after creating my first lesson plan. It gave me a concrete time first of all to have my first draft ready to go over and discuss. My host teacher was very open about her thoughts and what she would keep, change and add. I think that overall she was very pleased with what it was I prepared for this particular lesson. She was really excited to see how the student’s collages turned out as was I. I think that if I could do things differently in regards to analyzing my plan, I would have talked with more about other standards that she
For this essay I will be giving my thoughts and feeling about how important it is to collaborate with others as you create your lesson plans for your students. Collaborating with other teachers is essential. I was taught that one pair of eyes do a good job; several sets of eyes do a fantastic job. While I was looking over the standards that I wanted to use for my lesson I was very aware that there may be several standards in several subjects that I may be utilizing in my lesson. As I talked with the host teacher she was impressed that I used more than subject’s standards to create and present my lesson. I also learned that by collaborating with the host teacher, she was able to give me a little insight as to the things her students would enjoy and things that probably wouldn’t go over that well with her students. Having this information only helped me more to know how to help them to be able to have the opportunity to learn and to be comfortable in class.
As I watched the video for this particular lesson, I was impressed how both of the teachers were able to recall and help one another with different activities they had planned for their units. They were very open and seemed to want to help one another create the best units they could. I think that they showed that collaborating with another teacher or team can be very beneficial instead of hindering. I pre-scheduled a time to talk with my host teacher after creating my first lesson plan. It gave me a concrete time first of all to have my first draft ready to go over and discuss. My host teacher was very open about her thoughts and what she would keep, change and add. I think that overall she was very pleased with what it was I prepared for this particular lesson. She was really excited to see how the student’s collages turned out as was I. I think that if I could do things differently in regards to analyzing my plan, I would have talked with more about other standards that she