The Challenges of Teaching over Zoom!
As the semester draws to a close, our last teaching lab occurred over zoom! This was a great opportunity to test out teaching over zoom in a low risk and safe environment. Another challenge we faced during our last teaching lab was using a lesson plan written by National FFA Life Knowledge as opposed to coming up with our own lesson. I found this surprisingly challenging. The lessons were meant to be taught over 100 mins and we were tasked with rewriting it for a 25 minute class session without changing the activities too much. I learned pretty quick that rewriting someone else's lesson plan is in some ways harder than writing your own lesson plan. I decided that the easiest way to do this was to follow the lesson plan as much as I could and fit as much as I could in 25 mins instead of trying to modify the whole 100 min lesson into 25 mins. I then ended the lesson with a ticket out the door question that would continue into the next class session. My...