Thursday, May 10, 2007

1950s reflection

This was my class and i have to say, its really difficult to teach a class. I got lot of research, but it didn't seem like it was enough during class, and i just wanted the time to end. I was always worried that we wouldn't have enough things to do that takes up the whole class. We tried to get some fun activities, but its hard to plan out whats going to happen in the class, like whats going to be said and how long discussions are going to last.
It was really hard to get people to learn things when you don't know everything about the 1950s, but all in all it was pretty fun to try teaching out. Mr. Cheever and Mr. Mindich was a great help when we had discussions because they had so much little small information that relates really well to the topic. For future groups who plan to have discussions, they'll save ya.
Maybe we had such a difficult time because it was mainly just me and eric doing all the work, when its suppose to be groups of 4-5. We had a really lacking group and so we didn't really get things that really were in depth of our topic, but we really did try.
For example, we didn't know what the beatniks were at all. We tried looking up information on it, but we couldn't find anything that would help too much. We even tried asking some other history teachers, but we only got 5 sentences worth of information, like everywhere else.
It was nice to get compliments of being good teachers.

1 comment:

Dan said...

OK, I am glad I found these, but you are still missing two.