{"id":705,"date":"2014-02-01T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/instructionadventures.wordpress.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2014-02-01T12:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T18:23:42","slug":"starting-out-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/2014\/02\/01\/starting-out-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting out slow!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well let&#8217;s start at the beginning.\u00a0 I have this opportunity to learn instruction from the ground and can&#8217;t say up because there is lateral movement not just up.\u00a0 This post is going to focus on a couple activities that have occurred in the last 8-10 days within the construct on my internship.<\/p>\n<p>My most significant insight has been in observation of a variety of professionals and how different each approaches the process of &#8220;being a teacher.&#8221;\u00a0 I in a reflective mode see it as a vocation as in other fields where the participant or teacher must be fully aware of their being and their responsibility to the student at all times.\u00a0 I must admit I wish there was more time for observation because I gain more insight the more exposure to teachers about the process, failures, and successes.<\/p>\n<p>The most stressful times has been the demo done during the Monday meetings.\u00a0 The first was a Scout tool demo done in the time constraints of 5 minutes&#8230;whew where did the time go and what do I cover?\u00a0 Really felt under rapid fire and couldn&#8217;t remember what I said or if I covered what was needed.\u00a0 The second demo was a active learning session(5 minutes again!!!!) for keywords.\u00a0 That I felt was a big improvement over the first time and felt a little more comfortable.\u00a0 The active part was a difficult process for me as I spent all weekend trying out various methods.\u00a0 In the end used index cards.<\/p>\n<p>The finale of this time frame was co-teaching with Karlie love her. Received great feedback from her on some definite areas of improvement and successes.\u00a0 My portion was to cover Scout, so the practice 5-minute demos really help prepare me and provided prospective from observing Rob (fellow intern) to borrow some best practices.\u00a0 I felt like I lost control of my time and didn&#8217;t get in-depth enough.\u00a0 I can see that improvement is all that can happen.\u00a0 I look forward to embodying, emulating, and learning what &#8220;teaching&#8221; actual means to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well let&#8217;s start at the beginning.\u00a0 I have this opportunity to learn instruction from the ground and can&#8217;t say up because there is lateral movement not just up.\u00a0 This post is going to focus on a couple activities that have occurred in the last 8-10 days within the construct on my internship. My most significant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/2014\/02\/01\/starting-out-slow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting out slow!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/instructionadventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}