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The Big Observation Week (Week 3 of Student Teaching)

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 This week was a pretty big week for me. Not only was I observed by Penn State this week, I was also observed by the University of Florida. Both observations were very different but both went pretty well.  This week I was still only teaching second period animal science where we started our Reproduction Unit.  My first observation of the week was with Penn State. I was observed by Dr. Curry through zoom. It was one of the first times the kids saw the Swivil so I did get a few funny comments.  The lesson I taught was called "How does the male reproductive tract work?".   The day before I introduced the parts of the male reproductive tract and for my observation I taught what each part does. So for bellwork I had the students write down one part of the male reproductive tract and had a student point to it on their diagram at the beginning of class.  We started off class with a kahoot to review the parts of the male reproductive tract. Unfortunately, we had some technological pr