Teacher Academy Small Lesson Plans

Kenzie Baldwin
Feature Editor

            Teacher Academy students present a small lesson plan to a group of the students that they are student teaching. They could pick whatever their teacher and they had talked about for activities in class and the teacher academy teacher (Jenny Crawford) would observe it.

            “For my small group I made flash cards with money word problems on them,” said senior Nicole Craig.

            Each teacher academy student is assigned a day where they have to present their small lesson plan, it is informal and is just helping them prepare for the large lesson plan that will be later on in the semester.

            “I think the experience of being up in front of the kids is what we are aiming for,” said Craig.

            Having this experience helps the teacher academy students learn what to do in real life scenarios in classrooms while teaching and also helps them see the problems do occur and how to work out those problems.

            “Alea made a few smart aleky remarks which I had to remind her to use nice words and then Amy wouldn’t focus on what was going on she just kept giving up and didn’t want to do anything so that was hard to get her to want to be there,” said Craig.

            After the student gives the lesson the teacher academy teacher goes over what went well and what the student needs to work on.

           “Crawford told me I was very patient and that I was resourceful. She told me that I should work on keeping a positive tone when I am getting frustrated with a student to help them want to perform,” said Craig.