Jason Boehm- Teach In Reflection

All in all it was a relief to get our classes over with and it felt great.  It was also nice to see all our hard-work pay off.  During our workshop I think the two things that were the best was the visual (Powerpoint with Interviews) and the activity itself.  Every kid seemed into decorating pencils and some didn’t want to stop and asked if they could decorate more after school.  I underestimated how  hard it is to teach a class.  We got a brief introduction to teaching this year with our science project on the human body, but it is more challenging teaching younger kids.  In the first workshop the kids were great, the second group were difficult to control.  Teaching the material wasn’t hard for me.  We worked well as a team and we would just try and tell the kids to please be quiet.  I think we would have a different conclusion to the workshop and maybe give them more factual information.  I think the one thing I would take away from this experience is that never give up hope and make the best of what you have.  What went well for my set up group was making posters and placing all around the school, educating people about the day.  I thought the assemblies were great, the only issue I have is that the morning one may have gone on too long.  Everything leading up to the teach in was stressful.  I think next year you guys should give the kids a little more time to make the class instead of 15 days.  I also think that there shouldn’t be groups with more than 4 people teaching it.  I enjoyed the experience.