Observation Paper

This weekend, I worked on my classroom observations that I completed last semester (Spring 2008). At the time, I observed two classes at Hoover High School. One class was a World History class, which was made up of mostly sophomores. The other class was a hybrid for seniors; for the first half of the semester is was US Government, the second half of the semester was Economics.

As I was looking through my notes from my observations, I thought about Professor Imazeki's Economics for Teachers class and my student teaching sessions with Junior Achievement this semester. I thought about all the hard work and research it took to put together a good lesson plan in Economics, especially for today's high school students. As I was reading my notes, I wrote down that many of the students in the US Government and Economics class had no clue what economics was. When the teacher went over the term scarcity and what it meant, almost all the students couldn't even pronounce the word correctly. That's how much they knew about economics.

When I become a teacher and I begin the first lesson plan for economics for my students, I'm going to have to do a good job of making it easy to understand for my students, because many of them might not even know how to pronounce "economics" correctly.