Both of my cooperating teachers are really cool so far. They are both males and is very knowledgable in their subject matter. They relate well with their students. They are always on top of their game and have very good control of the tone of their classes. The students are well informed of the procedures that are expected from them in the class and overall do a very good job in following the classroom directions. Today in my second period class the kids worked on a study guide for Fridays test. I thought that the teacher gave them to much independent time to work on the assignment and instead it just gave them time to talk and play around making it to where the kids were just waiting on him to give the answers. What was suprising about the whole thing is in the end after he gave them the answers he did a quiz game over the material and suprisingly most of the students knew the answers to the question. Overall I think I would have made this a take home study guide that they turned in to me and then next class period I would have given it back and let them grade and correct it, leaving it for them to complete the assignment on their own. This would have given more time for studing and quizzing the kids and clearing up any misunderstanding about the material an also time to introduce the next topic. this was to much down time for my taste. But overall it showed great success.
