teaching

I forgot to post yesterday, so I am going to combine it into one. First off, I had my microteaching experience today which I was quite nervous for. I don't know why it feels so different standing up in front of your peers and teaching than standing up in front of children and teaching, but it does. I know it is good experience for this upcoming year though, and even though I hate watching videos of myself, I know that that will be beneficial as well, since have to do this for our assessment later on in the year. Might as well start practicing now, right?

I also wanted to comment on the reading we had by Carol Dweck. I thought the reading was so insightful. I had never considered the way that we compliment children might actually be detrimental and sending a completely different message than the one we had intended. We have to be very careful in how we speak to our students and make sure that we are praising their hard work and effort and not just the final grade.