From Lancaster Co to Adams Co

Today I had visited Ms. Liszka at Bermudian Springs High School. The purpose of my visit was to observe her teach to learn from another cohort member as well as help her find strengths and weaknesses. Throughout the day I had observed her teach Ag Business, Ag Mech 1 and 2, Animal Science, and Greenhouse.

Highlights
During her Ag Mech 2 class, she had taught about compression ratios, and how it will affect engine performance as well as the power delivered to the PTO. Ms. Liszka's forte in animal science had shown through as she taught conversions of calories to Mcal/kg. Regardless of her tactics to get her students to answers why it is important for the conversion, they didn't know how to answer the question. They ended being saved by the fire drill so they did not have to figure out the answer today.

Furthermore, during her Ag Mech 1 class, I was assisting her in teaching welding and oxy-acetylene cutting since she has a larger class. It was neat to bring my own experience into her classroom to help her students learn a little more about welding or cutting processes. I am currently teaching welding at Solanco, and utilizing what I have learned in another school was a great way to spend the day. 

As the visit came to a close, I was impressed by her strategies to get her student involved in the lessons she was teaching as well as her classroom management techniques to reign in the students that were not on task.