When it came to my first class, time management was as issue that I had.
I wasn't sure how to take this information from the text book and what was pertinent and what wasn't necessary for the presentation.
presentation how to create the presentation, how to add visuals, or what I should actually say in the narrations
Should I stick to the presentation, should I add personal stories? So
there were a lot of things here where time management would have been very important to mevery important to me
because a lot of time was spent, trying to figure out what would probably work best with my students,
when I was taking a lot of that time trying to create the material for
the class it was taking away from the discussion questions and interacting with my students.
Time management was very crucial, there were times where just trying to learn the software I had to use to create the narrations
the first week took me 20 hours. I didn't know how to use the software
I was required to use, I didn't know how to create these presentations with narrations
And a lot of time was spent
trying to do a remedial basic things for the classroom that would have been better spent elsewhere where the students would benefit
from it. I've run across some situations, where the text book was a little more in depth than
I personally felt would have been appropriate for the students, for their knowledge and their experiences
and sometimes the textbooks will skim over skim over the basics thinking
you already know those, and that you know it thoroughly and then I have to go in and I have to do further research, to try to figure out
what is this basic material that the textbook thinks that they already know thoroughly and how
much of that should I incorporate into my presentation of the current material
I don't want to go into too much remedial stuff because it distracts from the current material but the problem is if they don't know understand
the basics I'm wasting my time with this new material so there sometimes when you have to back up and you
have to go outside of the textbook and the material that's given to you by the school
and it all depends on who your student body is.