Yesterday marked the first day of “Summer Institute,” a two-week educational camp for a select group of kids that acts as a trial run for the new teachers. We have been developing the lesson plans for the last week for our respective subjects, mine being science. In science, I am teaching with a few other teachers a unit on digestion. I spent last night in fury, drawing pictures of bananas, cartoon renderings of bacteria, and poop for the lesson I had planned for today. Yes, in my job, I get to draw cartoon poop. Amazing.
So I presented my first lesson today and I was really happy with it. There were of course things that I learned, adjustments that I will make in the future, but on the whole I was successful. I got the kids excited about science, they achieved the objectives that I had created for the lesson, I got through the whole lesson, no kids were crying or on fire, and the lesson ended with an uninhibited group chant of “science Science SCIENCE SCIENCE….!!!!” Like a dream.
The highlight was probably when for my fun fact about myself I shared with the 5th and 6th graders that I cut up a dead person before (in my former life as a med student). One student raised her hand with a look of apprehension and asked, “Did you kill the person that you cut up?” I said, “ya it was a former student.” OK I didn’t actually say that. But I wish I had. I instead explained the process of body donation. Not a bad first day.
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