Teaching History

Wow! Today was a rare day.

I got the call to substitute teach in Edison today (10/24), and actually had the opportunity to teach my subject matter area of concentration - History/Social Studies. Hooray!

The calls to sub are usually for K-5 (General Ed), and sometimes for Middle School (for all kinds of teaching), but today was 8th grade Social Studies.

I had the chance to use a "KWL Sheet" for the first time. The sheet is as follows:

What you Know                  What you Want to know          What you Learned
before the lesson                  during the lesson                       from/after the lesson

The text above is part of column headers (3). The students begin the class by filling out the first two columns. At the end of the class they fill out the last column. The teacher that I subbed for also had the students complete a matching/ID section from a text book.

This was a great day!