Britton's Blueprint

As I am two days into my three day lesson with the students in the middle school Ag class at bald eagle high school I am able to reflect. I am reflecting on how I am going to change my lessons for when I student teach. It is definitely different teaching my peer and then teaching actually students. I think I struggle a lot in "assuming" what the student already know or have learned previously in the class. It is a little strange starting a new thing in the middle of a unit. The first day the students were very quiet, and they worked quietly and answered questions when they are called on. I think that I will be better at classroom management as I gain more experience as a teacher. I think that overall I had a lot of students that were very interested and I have kept their attention for both lessons thus far. A lot of the students had questions about the swivel and why is was there recording my lesson. I should have made that announcement at the beginning of class on the

I recently got an amazing opportunity to work along with my peers to gain insight on how to incorporate inquiry based learning into my lessons. I learned that students learn a lot from the inquiry method, and it is actually really fun to work though some of the lessons. As students teachers we prepared lessons and taught 15 minutes of them. After the 15 minutes we got some really awesome feedback on how to make the lesson better. My lesson, so there were no restrictions on what lesson we could bring to teacher. Me I brought a foods lesson, it didn't really hit me that there will be no grocery's or appliances in the work shop room, but at that point I already had the lesson made and I was super excited about sharing it. Before the lesson began I set the setting on the class, in a food science classroom/ lab with kitchen appliances. We were going to have to use our imagination, and pretend as if we are in the food science classroom. The students were broken into teams of tw

When I think about the work Inquiry, it makes me think inquiring. Inquiring to me, means that someone is looking to solve a  problem, using what they already know about a subject. It also makes me think that someone is trying to learn something, by asking  questions. In my opinion I think that inquiry learning uses all of those things.  As teacher we need to be flexible to adaptation. There will be new teaching methods that might benefit our students and ourselves. We need to feel comfortable using these new methods, and adapting our old styles to fit our students.  A new method that I am not very familiar with is Inquiry based learning. Penn State has given me an amazing opportunity to go to Harrisburg to a workshop to better my skills in this area of my teaching. I am super excited because as of right now I am having a hard time picturing this method in a classroom. I am really excited to learn from current teachers, and how they successful implement this teaching method in their

As I started my research on inquiry based learning, I found myself asking what in the world is it? and How am I supposed to implement it in my teaching style? Soon after I started reading, I realized that it might not be something that is super hard to implement. Inquiry based teaching is a method that not only includes the curiosity of students but the scientific method. This method actually combines the two, to be able to enhance the critical thinking skills of the students. Now I am thinking, How am I going to incorporate this into my teaching. I already have one connection that I am excited to make during my student teaching. This past week I spend my time at the National FFA convention in Indianapolis. I found something that I thought was super cool, SPACE SEEDS. I am really excited to be part of this experiment with my students. The following is a link to the program. https://www.firsttheseedfoundation.org/tomatosphere/ "Tomatosphere™ uses the excitement of space expl

For someone that has never actually had the national FFA convention experience. I came to Indianapolis to walk across the stage to get my american degree, that all I have ever seen of the convention. That is not even close to all that convention has to offer. The convention has so many student workshops, but teacher workshops as well. I never imagined what it would look like, at opening sesson all of the seating becoming filled, with not only Pennsylvania jackets, but jackets that hold students that traveled from all different distances to be at the same place as me and my students. It was an amazing feeling looking out the windows of the second floor of the convention center, and seeing a sea of blue FFA jackets from everyone across the states. The environment that was created with these jackets was not only welcoming but including. Everyone in the jackets look different but they all have the same passion for the FFA organization. On the way home from the convention, I had tim