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Scott Higgins KSP 330 Co-Teaching Reflections

__Lesson 1 Reflection__ Wednesday, November 16
 * Journal 3**

9th Grade P.E. Co-Teaching Unconscious Choking Child

Wednesday was the first day that I co-taught with Ms. Hinz. We were teaching unconscious choking of an adult, unconscious choking of child, and unconscious choking of an infant. We decided it would be best if we flipped who was going to be the lead teacher vs. the teacher that assists. The first skill was unconscious choking adult. For this skill Ms. Hinz was the lead teacher and I assisted. The second skill was unconscious choking child. For this skill I was the lead teacher and Ms. Hinz assisted. For the third skill we flipped again for the unconscious choking infant, again Ms. Hinz was the lead teacher and I assisted. In the first period I felt pretty comfortable in two of the three skills. I was not as comfortable in the skill of unconscious choking infant so I do not think I did a very good job with co-teaching that part. I talked about it after class with Ms. Hinz and I told her that I agreed that I did not do as much as I needed to for quality co-teaching. I think because I was not as confident with this skill I did not add enough to the teaching, plus I did not want to give the students incorrect information. I struggled in the 2nd period with the teaching toward the end of the lesson because I somewhat lost where I was and got rattled. Ms. Hinz asked the students what I should do next and used it as a learning opportunity for them, which worked well, even though I was not totally comfortable with it. She also suggested to me that if I get lost I can ask the students what I should do next as a way of testing them and giving myself an opportunity to gather my composure.

__Lesson 2 Reflection__ Thursday, November 17 Period 2
 * Journal 4**

9th Grade P.E. Co-Teaching Unconscious Choking Child (Review & Test Day)

The lesson that I co-taught on this day was a review for Unconscious Choking of a Child. I co-taught the lesson with Ms. Kendra Hinz at Mankato West. The lesson was set up to be a role play with the two of us. I would play the role of the 9th grade student taking the skills test for the unconscious choking child. Ms. Hinz played the role of the teacher that was giving the test. I felt that I did a pretty good job with my co-teaching part in playing the role of the student, although I was nervous because I understand how important it is to play this role perfectly to set an example for the students. Ms. Hinz did let me know that I did make one error with the tongue lift by using my index finger instead of my thumb and let me know why doing everything exactly perfect is so important. I felt that I was prepared to take the “test” because I had went over the information numerous times prior to coming to class and because I also had the opportunity to watch the skit be played out in period 1 with two other teachers. She asked me if I was taking notes in period 1 because I was unprepared and I said that I taking a few notes because I wanted to make sure I did everything right the next period so I would not set a bad example for the students.

__Lesson 3 Reflection__ Monday, November 21 Period 2
 * Journal 5**

9th Grade P.E. Co-Teaching Found Unconscious Choking Adult, Child, and Pediatric

The lesson that I co-taught today was similar to the first lesson that I taught with a couple exceptions. The main thing that was different on this lesson was this time we were teaching Found Unconscious Choking Adult, Child, and Infant as compared to the first lesson where we were co-teaching a situation that a person is choking and becomes unconscious when we are already there. The other thing that was different in this lesson was I was the lead teacher in two of the three situations and Ms. Hinz was the lead teacher in only the situation where we find an unconscious infant choking. When we were not acting as lead teachers we were acting as assisting teachers. This type of teaching worked well for us because I not always comfortable teaching CPR and when I had questions I had her to help me out. I also think it worked will in the second lesson when we used role playing to show the students how the testing will be done. I felt pretty comfortable teaching on the adult and child but not feel as comfortable teaching on the infant so Ms. Hinz was the lead teacher on that part. Once the lesson was done the students had the opportunity to practice for the rest of the class period and to test on any of the skills they felt comfortable with. Because I am no currently certified in CPR I was not able to test them but I was able to help them with their studying and getting ready for their test. I also asked the students to fill out the questions that I gave them and they gave them back to me at the end of class. One thing that bothered me was Ms. Hinz on occasion would make a point in telling the class if I did a skill incorrectly and kind of put me on the spot, I thought she could have handled the situation differently. However, after I taught the lesson in period 1 she did give me some good feedback that I could use in periods 2 and 3 and I appreciated that. I think it was difficult for both Ms. Hinz and me to co-teaching CPR because it is so important and making a small error can be costly, but I do understand that it just happened to be what unit she had coming up when I started with her. I felt that I learned more about CPR/Rescue Breathing than I did anything else. I do think that I got good experience co-teaching in a school environment and learned that I will have to prepare better when teaching something that I might not be as familiar with.