Wow, that was a tricky lesson to plan! I really appreciate the benefits of utilizing the problem-solving approach, but yet I really struggled initially to develop a lesson using this teaching technique. With a little extra help, I was able to plan it out and felt confident on my lab session day.
To Breed or Not to Breed? |
Success?
Yes! I thought it was my best lesson so far, because I was able to stay on track, stay organize, and become a little more clear. Yes, I still have a TON to work on, but I'm starting to feel a bit more confident.
Improvements to be made:
1.) My Sense of Time: I really have no sense of time when I teach. I felt like my lesson was taking so much time and was afraid that I was going over time actually! In fact, I was very much under time! My plan for this is to set the timer on my phone, so I can better gauge my timing.
2.) Keep Probing Questions for Deeper Thinking: I was very quick to take the students' answers and recreate them on the board to match what I had in mind. For example, they said, "We need to learn about how phenotype and pedigree affect breeding decisions." I then took that and said, "Alright, so we need to look into genetics content, right...?" It would have been better to keep posing questions that would lead them to the over arching theme of genetics.