Thursday 21 October 2010

The Best Laid Plans

I have completed my first lesson plan.
On my own.
We were given a poem, "The Identification" by Roger McGough and we had to plan a lesson either a solo lesson or part of a longer scheme of work - something I now know is also called a medium term plan.
Get me and all that educational terminology.
I haven't even mentioned SEALs or ECM or PHSE - don't ask!
It is a poem about a father being shown his dead son's body and how he reacts to the personal possessions left behind.
I almost cried after I read the poem but I pressed on and created a lesson which we had to present to the rest of our cohort today.
Our tutor's final remark was "well done, nobody produced a lesson that would be a disaster."