Lesson Planning and Hixson Retreat

So...once again, I am late with this post. Don't worry. I'm going to make myself do 20 laps around the Hixson building to punish myself, so it's all good.
Our lesson this past Wednesday was on writing effective lesson plans. This area is probably one of my biggest weaknesses because I'm the type of person that doesn't plan ahead and just "wings" it, a technique which I've used successfully in the past and oftentimes with humorous results, but when it comes to facilitating a classroom, it may not be exactly the best method. I'll also have to keep in mind that in order for it to be an effective classroom, the students will be doing more of the talking as opposed to the instructors.
This weekend we had our Peer Mentoring Retreat, where we went all around Ames and ISU and took a bunch of crazy pictures for a scavenger hunt. Our group seemed to have a recurring theme of having me elevated in every picture, so it'll be funny to see all of the pictures Lisa took. I kind of experience some of the Experience Iowa State guests out...I was still in my STARS uniform when we were by Carver Hall taking pictures with the statue and I was kind of...climbing on the statue at the time holding peanut butter. Needless to say the guests were confused and we left kind of quickly. It was pretty hillarious though. We met at Perfect Games to play bowling and I reaffirmed just how HORRIBLE I am at bowling although I did get a spare and imprvoed immensely the second half. (My goal was 50, and I got 71 so that's not too bad.) We played lasertag and I ended up getting 7 out of 9...I probably would have gotten higher if I didn't happen to be Heath's favorite victim! (Allie, if you are reading this, you are now my favorite grad. assistant.)
Hope you all have a nice week and I look forward to Wednesday's class!