Our first day as teachers in a 2nd grade social studies class was exciting and I cant wait to teach these students all I know about economics! We spent the first day introducing our selves and doing an activity o get to know each other as teachers and students. We met every student in the class and asked them questions, academic and non academic, to get to know their interests and dislikes. Our teaching group method for getting to know our students was a "Ski-tell" game. In this game we had a jar of colorful skittles. Each student was to reach their hand in, generously, and pick out one skittle. Depending on the color of the skittle, the student was to answer a question. For example, if a student reached in the jar and picked out a blue skittle, the question to be answered was "Tell us something that you recently tried for the first time." The questions asked were used to specifically get to know likes, dislikes, and interests of students so that we could use the information to engage them in our future lessons.
I am excited to see where this semester takes us! I look forward to working with these students.
BTW the skittle game, brought to you by Pinterest! Is a really fun way to engage the student, but make sure the students don't eat to much skittles they WILL get hyper!
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