Friday, September 15, 2017

Lab 1: First Day of School

It's the first day of school! Brings both excitement and dread! Excited to be back with our students, but also gotta renorm with all our students. How do we as teachers, expedite this process. I think it is most important to establish yourself as a teacher, but also don't come off like a dictator. But as always, it's important to remember to not be a friend. Students crave mentors and leadership. They can find friends other places. There's a difference between having authority and respect, and demanding authority with no respect. One picture that I always loved was this one. It shows the many hats a teacher can wear.
Along with that, I believe in the power of humor and fun. We just learned W.H. Lancelot's principles and one of them states about the power of humor. I think it is important to play some sort of game or fun activity with your students every chance possible! Especially on the first day! On the first day you want to get the students engaged with you, so I think it's important to do something fun before you jump right into rules and expectations. That's what they've heard all day, they won't truly listen to you if you just follow the pattern.

Your fist day establishes you for the rest of the year. It is one of the most important days to get right!
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2 comments:

  1. Tiffany MoreySeptember 17, 2017 at 4:53 PM

    Katie, I liked your suggestions on how to make the first day fun! Can you highlight some of the things that went well with your lesson and some of the things that you want to improve on? You seem like you have a good grasp on what is needed to connect with your students, but please provide more information on how you incorporated this into your first day lesson.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 18, 2017 at 8:43 AM

    Katie, I like all the advice and suggestions that you have listed above and really like your picture that clearly shows how many hats we as ag teachers will wear. I wish you would have gave some insight as to what you think went well or could be improved on in your specific lesson. I know I had a long list of things I felt went terrible but was glad in the end with the feedback I received that it wasn't as bad as I thought.

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