The Journey Continues

As the title states, we, the Summer 2007 cohorts, have set forth on journey to become change agents. I am excited to be a participant and am looking forward to learning with the students I will meet.

The teaching experience at Sandtown demonstrated the students can construct new knowledge. During my lesson plan, the students were recording the data and they noticed the levels between the 15 second intervals were changing. As they graphed the data they noticed a curve. When I asked why the graph was not a straight line, they responded the shape of the glass was the reason. I was blown away and I have realized the importance of planning a lesson and being able to adapt to the learning activity. What I am trying to say, I was focused on the importance lesson plan but when the students discovered something I had not planned, I did not identify the this discovery and expand on it. I realize now my awareness of the students' learning needs to increase and let go of the plan when appropriate. This will be hard for the engineer but as I reflect on the journey I am visualizing where I need to go.

The dynamics of teaching will require astute observation on my part so I can be a better teacher of the students. The journey for this engineer continues.