Journal #4 - Beery


Leah Beery

Journal #4

February 17th - 21st

Agriculture Education 

Cody High School and Middle School

Mr. Troy Wiant

Hours: High School - 4 hours, Middle School - 2 hours, Lesson Planning - 1 Hour


February 19th

  • Middle school lesson plan

February 21st

  • Observe students welding
  • Interact with students in parliamentary procedure
  • Observe students being engaged on a agriculture mathematics lesson
  • Teach lesson on livestock terminology and anatomy
Elaboration:
    Teaching the lesson on livestock terminology and anatomy to the middle school this week was fun and showed student involvement. We taught the slide show to the student about livestock terminology between young, mature, and casturated species. We let them guess to see if they knew before they told them the right answer. Some of the students already knew a lot of terms, but we still elaborately told the students the differences in the terms. After we finished the lesson we then had a fun Quizz they took on their own. They loved the competition of the game and making sure they knew the right terms. Even the students who were new at learned about livestock were eager to learn the term to get the answers right to beat fellow classmates. Our final activity we did with the student was anatomy parts on the livestock we learned about. We let them guess and put on all the parts before we went through every part explaining what is was. As we did more species they started to catch on that some parts were the same, showing they were paying attention and getting them right. Every student loved this hands on activity and was engaged every time. Teaching in the middle school this week just made me more excited for teaching in the future!!

Reflection:

    I learned that real life connections and examples are important in the classroom. In the high school I learned that many different students connect with content in class, if the teacher is engaging and showing interest in the students. My mentor teacher Mr. Wiant does a great job of making sure his agriculture lesson connects with all his students. One of the class lessons he taught on Friday was about agriculture mathematics. He let two students draw a truck on the board, then used it in his lesson. They figured out many conversion in the illustration he gave them, with grain and dimensions of a grain trailer and grain silo. Most students elaborated they weren't good at math or didn't like it, but after the lesson they seemed more confident in their skills. Mr. Wiant lectured to his students that no matter how good or bad you are at math, you can use it in every day life. Showing them with a real life situation with dimension and numbers that most student related too, made the students realize math isn't that bad, and is more useful then just math class. 
    In my future classroom I want to elaborate real life situations to my students. Showing students how they can use content you can learn in their future. Even if some students in my future agriculture classes are going to become ranchers or farmers how they can use math and other core classes into their future. Making students more engaged and interested in learning new content. 










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