Team Teaching

THIS WAS OUR TEAM TEACHING KINDERGARTEN PUPPET SHOW

No, the puppets to the left are not the team teachers. I have had an opportunity to participate in team teaching while at Lincoln. Our team is teaching social skills to kindergarteners, first and second graders. Janet, our speech clinician, Renae and I have three social skills groups that meet weekly. We have been working on greeting, introducing yourself, and hygiene. We have individual sharing, a lesson, puppet show demonstrating our lesson, and an opportunity to practice our new skill. The students love the puppet show and always want to play with the puppets. This week we did a review of all the lessons and the students made sock puppets and put on a puppet show. The students were to teach what they had learned using their puppets. That became the "why I want to be a teacher" moment. Like sponges (despite the wiggles) they had absorbed the lessons and did a remarkable job reteaching their classmates.