Amanda's Blog

Learning Letter Overall this has been one of my favorite courses at Eastern. It looked at many different aspects f teaching while letting us actually getting on our feet and doing so. I think my favorite activity was the mini lesson. Even though the lesson was only 20 minutes it gave me the opportunity to actually teach a real lesson. The only other lesson I taught was for students that ranged age 7-14 and it was for a creative dramatics class. The only downside to that lesson was that we were able to tell our classmates who they are and they were respectful the whole time. In a real high school classroom there will be students that are disrespectful and don’t want to do the work. I also enjoyed the book talk because it gave me the opportunity to see all the different kinds of books out there that students my age are interested in and also books that I could use in my classroom as well. One the books I specifically remember was  “Wonder”. There’s also a movie co...