Practicum Story

       The most memorable and interesting moment in the short practicum was my first grade 8 math class.I spent 8 hours prepare the lesson and had so much in the lesson plan to deliver . However, in the actually lesson , only 75% of my lesson plan got done as I had to waste good 15 minutes in classroom management.My sponsor teacher wanted me to be really hard on the kids who don't behavior well and don't let kids take advantages on me(as I am just a student teacher).Although not to my surprise that grade 8 students had lots of energy but I never expect the situation to be that chaotic at one point.I had to stop my lesson from time to time.Since I knew that I would only teach this class once during during the two-week practicum, I was hesitated to discipline the kids. This drew the back fire on actually lesson delivery.As soon as I realized the consequence  of not setting up the street rule from the get go, I started to hammer down on them and it worked pretty well at the end of the class.I guess I could have done that earlier. And I was really surprised that how short of the time that grade 8 kids can stick on one single activity.If there is one single thing that I can change in my teaching is that for lower grade kids, I really need to come up variety of activity to overcome this issue.