Lauren Madison
4/10/23
1:35-3:10
Sequence of Events
The school was operating on a two-hour delay schedule due to testing being done that morning. I had initially believed I'd be teaching Tuesday due to the delayed schedule or Monday and Tuesday instead. Ms. Bleicher said this would not work because students needed to start the next unit on Tuesday. Due to only having 28 minutes with the students and having to cut off about eight minutes to give students time to complete their end assessment, I had to condense and rework my lesson drastically. As students took their seats Alex and Denver handed out the papers for the day.
Elaboration of One or Two Significant Events
During the fifth period, I was met with a lot of resistance from the students when it came time to teach my lesson. I was already stressed because I had to completely scratch my plans and ideas for the lesson that I'd been working on and try to work with the time constraint so being met with this resistance was very hard on my own motivation. Only about two or three students seemed to be taking me seriously while everyone else was talking amongst themselves and doing their own thing. I kept trying to get their attention and reminding them that there were no Chromebooks for the day or telling people to put their phones away. I had a lot of students giving me attitude or making fun of the way things were going which was overall extremely difficult. The lesson for the fifth period went horribly and I just felt like the relationships I'd worked hard to build weren't exactly at the level I thought they were. Students often ask me to work with them one-on-one in this class and on a typical day I'm bouncing between about 4-6 students as needed so I figured I'd at least be able to rely on these students to work with me which just wasn't the case. Ms. Bleicher offered a way for me to rework my lesson in sixth so it was a bit easier to follow and in the sixth period it was a lot more smooth sailing with much more effort being put into it on the student's end and we actually got through the entire lesson almost. Overall the experience was really stressful and discouraging in a way because I just felt very defeated by the end of the day.
Analysis of Event
I think in general the students were tired after a day of testing and no matter how easy or challenging my lesson was I would have been met with resistance. I also think that the students do like me and those relationships have been built but I also think that as time has progressed their much less interested in getting the Ball State students to like them and we aren't as cool or interesting as we once were to them. I think this was a lot more realistic for me and the response I'm going to face when I'm an actual teacher and don't have that cool factor to the students of being in college. This is how my students are actually going to act so I should plan for this behavior and put a lot of focus into that hook and pulling them in. It was a bad lesson and very defeating but I'm happy this happened in the setting it did