Derobbio tt 3

Larry and I were the first to give our culture class. We choose to follow a lesson plan template, but we were of course very pressed for time. We agreed that we wanted to discuss all variations of culture and hastily prepared our class. It started out a little slow to begin with and the students seemed to be almost as shy as us. Luckily Larry had planed out some great vocabulary to begin with and a small quiz that got the students minds moving. One thing I noticed right from the beginning was that the students are very quick to ask questions. It often helped initiate conversation, and also kept me on my toes. Being better prepared would have been quite beneficial to answer all of our curve-balls. One question I had difficulty in particular with was explaining the definition of Biases. In the future I will definitely check the vocabulary I choose to use, not just as vocabulary, but also in context within handouts and stories. Once we started the activity the class seemed to be really enjoying themselves which helped boost Larry and I's confidence levels. I found myself learning a lot from each individual student, and insight to many new things I was unaware of. Each student had many things they wanted to share and we made sure everyone had a chance to speak. Although the entire activity didn't play out exactly by the rules, the categories and overall theme remained. Some students decided to pick out a particular subject they wanted to tell us about, and they also asked questions about our culture they were unaware of, or had thrown the off. We did run out of time pretty abruptly and had no particular closure to the lesson. In the future I would definitely keep an eye on time management, and have a better way to bring the class back together and have a final review of the lesson. Overall, for the first time teaching, I think it went fairly well and made me aware of some of my strengths, and weakness' and gave me a better idea of what I should place more emphasis on, and vice versa when teaching.