Clinical Reflection

The clinical teaching experience was a fun, but also stressful experience. I enjoyed doing it but i do not believe that our group was fully prepared for the task. Which is when i learned that the phrase "It is always better to be over prepared", the phrase i have heard from countless teachers is almost too true. To teach a lesson you must know what you are going to do inside and out, and must have plans for emergencies or if something just doesn't work out. Going in i thought that our group was prepared to do the lesson and get all the way through the fifty minutes of class that we were responsible to teach, but i think that we found out very quick that we were not fully prepared to teach the class. I was not ready for what i experienced. I was very stressed out about the lesson. I was worried about doing a good job teaching and hoping that people would participate in class, and etc. I believe that the students we had in class were ready to learn, and that they had read in preparation for the class, which really helped with getting through the lesson. I know this because they came in and participated in the class discussion without hesitation.