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The lesson today was learning new vocabulary and working on grade reports. Student engagement is half and half. The student's are responsible for being open minded and ready to learn and be engaged. The teacher is responsible for drawing the students in and causing them to think, be engaged, in the lesson. Miss Noble is really good at engaging students in her class, she connects ancient history to what is happening today in the world. We worked on higher order thinking in History class a lot because we'd talk about what happened and how it affected the world today, and how the world would be different if something else had happened. Being able to apply what you're learning to your life and looking at the big picture is really important when learning because it helps you not only to remember but to be able to apply what you're learning later on. I would like to teach a lesson on Spanish in America. To get students involved I would let them do research projects on different aspects of Spanish and America, history, culture, present etc. One of the questions they'd have to answer would be how their lives would be different if they were born in a Spanish culture and the affects that Spanish has had on our country. The most challenging aspect of teaching is that the classroom is never the same from day to day or period to period to deal with this I will be flexible and relaxed so I don't get stressed out when things don't go as planned.