Blog #5: Lesson Planning

       Lesson planning is one of those things you know you'll eventually have to do as a teacher, but no one really looks forward to it. I am undeniably glad that I had Mackenzie to plan our first lesson with; without having that person to bounce ideas off of our lesson plan would have gone nowhere very fast. 

       My favorite aspect of lesson planning was definitely coming up with the activity. It was fun and exciting to be able to plan something fun and creative for the students and I liked being able to fit it into the scaffold. Even though it was difficult to arrange the project like this, it was a fun challenge. On the flip side, I though that writing out our rationale and filling in the student objective and teacher goals was our most difficult task. These parts often felt too obvious to really word properly and for others it just seemed like we were searching too much for what would 'give us the points' so to speak, rather than what the actual objectives or goals or rationale really was.

      I feel like this is the sort of skill that, once mastered, maintains a pretty steady difficulty level. Meaning, that once we completely understand how to write a lesson plan, whatever difficulty level it took for us to work through that mastered plan, writing future plans will continue to be that level of difficulty.Which is not something I'm looking forward to, honestly. But at the same time, having accepted that I feel better prepared to be a teacher and to teach effectively. Which is the ultimate goal as a teacher.