I had this posted to my main blog but I wanted to put it here so all of you could see it.
This was our first day of teaching which didn't go too bad considering how confusing it was and how unprepared I felt. a lot of things changed at the last minute but things worked out ok. It was hard to introduce the bully rules since they were already learning about them the last three weeks. One thing I hope to learn with this whole process is to learn to still keep my cool even when things aren't going well. That feeling that comes when you know, as the instructor, you are loosing your classes attention and loosing control over what's going on is something that isn't pleasant but with unpleasant things comes growth and responsibility :) little play on words there.
we showed the whole K-2 class a mgruff video to start off our lesson and then broke off into groups and used computers to play a mcgruff game. After the computer games, I felt we needed to get up and move around but we needed to stay in our groups, so I had my kids play sharads with who's gonna be the bully, the victim, or the standby. some kids didn't want to participate and that's ok. One thing Beth was talking to us about was how to adjust our words so we are not asking the students to do what we want we tell them. I personally don't agree with this philosophy but at the same time I don't have anything to replace it with. Overall it went well and I can't wait to learn and grow from this experience.
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