Teaching our lessons: Practice makes Perfect

So today a lot of us got to teach our lessons along with Dr. Parker's class, which I think was great and a very beneficial learning experience. I definitely was able to think of some adjustments that I can make to my lesson before I teach it in the classroom because as Standard 3b1, which is knowing our content. Even though I definitely felt comfortable knowing my content, I feel like I could have done better with conveying that to my class. For example, in the beginning I think that it would have been better if I had handed out my "rice balls" before the story and then asked the class if they thought that it would have been possible to kill a snake with it. I think that would have made my lesson flow better or have a better hook in the beginning. I also think that would have given me more time to talk about sequencing so we would have had a chance to do a guided practice where we were going to draw a fairy tale hero or villain and a wacky location and then use those to do group re-tellings of Li Chi. In the end I think that having us practice our teaching like this is enormously beneficial. Now, I don't know about you but, let's get ready fo Easter break now shall we?