Research is Infinite

Our fieldwork experience was one for the books!
We were assigned to separate groups.
Within these groups we taught 3 lessons in a hour and a half block.

As scary as it sounds, it was!

We had time constraints and so much to do with such little time to do it!

But it was such a learning experience! Together my partner and I did a Direct Instruction lesson (where he took the reins) and an Inquiry and Cooperative learning lesson, which I fronted. Our topic was the colonization of the Hudson Valley BEFORE it was the Hudson Valley. So we explored the land of New Netherland, which was actually already colonized by Native Americans (Oh the things they don't mention in books) Henry Hudson and his crew, came there RE colonized, and named the land after him hence the Hudson Valley (what a meanie) Oh how soon we forget. That was a group of people's land before they were forced out and forced to settle somewhere else, which they had to do numerous times. SO no we didn't go into all of that in the classroom but, see how much you can learn even at my age? This is something I didn't really know about until I had to research the topic more to teach it. I guess I may have diverted a tad off of the lesson we taught so I will create a seperate blog for that. But I will say, one thing about being a teacher is you need to learn what they don't teach you in those cookie cutter books. You'll be much more knowledgeable then you'll ever expect. And research is infinite!

What they don't teach you in textbooks!