Co-Teaching a Lesson

The last lesson that I did out in my field classroom I co-taught with Lindsey. We wrote the lesson together. It was about the main character in the story that the 2nd grade was reading that week. Mary Anning was a real person back in the 1800's, so we decided to give our students more detail about her life. She was a female from a poor family who hunted for dinosaur bones. She had very little education, and she taught her self about science.  We focused on the hardships of her life, and we wanted the students to be able to identify her hardships and to identify hardships that they may have. We had them do a writing piece having them tell us Mary Anning's hardships and hardships that they may have. Then the students got to do an art project. They got to find their own "fossil." We had them do a rubbing of either leaves, flowers, or bugs, then they got to design the background.  I helped out Lindsey when she taught the lesson in her room, and she helped me out when I taught it in my room. I think that the lesson went really well for both of us, and it was amazing to see the difference in our classrooms. Even though the students are all 2nd graders at the same school the two classrooms are night and day. It was a very good and interesting experience for the both of us.