Practicing for the Big Day

Today, I was lucky enough to get to practice my lesson for my open class tomorrow. I'm teaching a grade 3, which is 9th grade, in middle school. My classes get separated into A, B, and C levels according to the students' abilities, and I'm teaching a A level class. My lesson is all about superstitions around the world. It has to be a good demonstration of coteaching, which is the only tough part. At my school, the Korean teacher mostly helps with class management, which is helpful in itself. There isn't really a ton of team teaching going on though. But the teacher I am working with tomorrow and I have worked really hard planning this lesson and thinking it through. I made the rough sketch, and she has helped me fine-tune it all. I'm actually really confident in the way it has turned out. I think, as long as I execute it well, it will be a really good lesson. As I said, I was able to practice twice today. The first time was with a different teacher on a B level class. I went really slowly and barely finished any of the activities. After that, I had a class with the teacher I will be doing the real thing with tomorrow on an A level class, so it was a better model of what it should be like tomorrow. Having just taught the lesson and run out of time, I was worried, so I rushed a bit. We ended up with 10 minutes to spare at the end of the lesson! I had them play the final game one more time in a different way, and I had another game already planned just incase, but still, not the best time management either. So my thought is that since I had one class that was too slow and one class that was too fast, tomorrow's class will be just right! It worked for Goldie Locks at least. I have a skit planned with the coteacher where we talk about how the US believes 13 is an unlucky number, but in Korea, people think 4 is an unlucky number. After that, we brainstorm some superstitions. Then we do a matching game where I give them random superstitions, and they have to guess which country that superstition is from. I'm trying to demonstrate the cultural aspect of superstitions--every culture has at least a few unique superstitions. After that, we go into a BINGO game where they walk around the room and find another student who either believes or has heard of a superstition on the paper. The first student to get 4 different names in a row wins the BINGO. If there is still time left, I will play a game where I put a picture of a superstition on the TV screen. One student sits on a chair with his or her back to the screen, and the other students have to give him or her clues to guess the superstition. I hope it all works out well, but I'm feeling good about it.