Importance Of Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement offered me the opportunity to experience first-hand teaching through my first education course. I taught a fourth grade classroom and I was teaching Junior achievement’s “My Region: Entrepreneurship. Each lesson focused on entrepreneurship, business, and what is takes or business to succeed. I was able to learn and teach through the curriculum and lesson plans that were already made and sorted out for me to use which helped in preparation for teaching. Not only did I learn for my experience teaching in a real classroom but I also learned from the students I taught. The students were giving me feedback through telling me that they enjoyed an activity or did not; and some students would speak through body language. If a lesson

The goal for educating students is still constantly want to improve curriculum, school standards, and teaching styles to teach students effectively. Even though I only observed and taught for a completion of eight hours, I realized as a teacher that I have to be open to change and have the student’s education as the number one priority when teaching. Being in a real classroom really opened my eyes to just how these students are wanting and willing to learn. As a teacher, it is my job to follow the state and district standards to provide the best education for my students just like how I followed the lesson plans for my Junior Teacher lessons. I had an objective for each lesson and by the end of the lesson I made sure the objective was met. I even asked the students what they learned and they were able to say exactly what they learned which was the

The curriculum made out for me did not specifically tell me how to teach, it was a guideline and offered ideas to help me through the lessons but it was my job to teach the information the curriculum provided me the best way for the students to understand and learn. I tried to motivate my students at the beginning of the lessons so that they stayed engaged. My curriculum did not provide tests to give out so I checked for understanding after my activities and lessons to make sure the students were grasping what I was teaching. For example, one of my activities involved me naming off entrepreneurs and the students guessing which category the entrepreneur would fit in (sports, entertainment, manufacturing, etc.) The students were able to fit most of the entrepreneurs I named of in the right category. After the activity, I asked the students if they could name other entrepreneurs that they know and most everybody had an answer. I then proceeded to ask what makes them an entrepreneur and they were able to give me reasons like the business or product they invented or sold. I was able to experiment with my verbal assessments or checks for understanding. Because it was not my classroom and I was not the official teacher, I did not individually discipline them. However, I was able to tell them to quiet down and give me five (under the teacher’s discretion, she told me when