Classroom observation

This is just an extra post because I am in a substitute teaching position for today. Right now I am watching my high school volleyball coach and middle school science teacher teach her sophomore students teach her biology students about chemistry. I have managed to not take one chemistry course throughout my whole high school and college career. I regret that decision of not taking a chemistry class because I would love to learn all of this information because I find it all interesting stuff. I love being a substitute teacher and being back in the school setting. I had such a great high school experience and I knew that that's where I wanted my career to be. So far I have been in the high school sciences classes and I love being there and seeing students learn fun new information. They do exciting new experiments and they have so much fun doing them, while also learning. I have noticed that in classes teachers are doing more experiments and doing more hands on things which I know would have helped me when I was a student. I have also noticed that while I started my technology course that technology is huge in the schools now, well at least in the school I have been subbing in. Students use the computers more and more and do a lot of work on them. They learn more from the computers and have their own emails or passwords to log in to their computers, I have also noticed that they have websites that they go to and can see their assignments and homework due or labs or rubrics that are on there so they can reference back to them if they need to. It seems like so much is done online or with technology, which we never had when i was in high school five years ago. In my science courses, I think I would use the glogster to do interactive posters for the students which would engage them in the material instead of just powerpoint notes that students easily get bored of. I really enjoy being in the classroom and learning about the new technology that has come about in the past few years and I am excited to see what arises when I have my own classroom.