Eric Kruger - Student teaching week 15

I am closing in on my final week of student teaching and it is surreal to say the least. This has been such a quick 16 weeks that I do not even know where it went to. Over this past week, the cooperating teacher has started to work back into the lessons and we have been co-teaching throughout the week. It has been weird to not be in full control of the class anymore as I pretty much have taught all of the classes since week 2 of my first placement. We are transitioning into games and full soccer games, so we are making sure that the students have a full grasp of the skills needed to play the games (IL 19.C.2b). We want to make sure that the students are not just wildly kicking the ball and have some stratigy behind their methods. Along with this, we want to make sure the students are staying safe ( IL 21.A.2b) as with soccer, many students may be looking and the ball and not where they are going. Also, with the nature of soccer, students will be accidentally getting kicked with another student may be going after a ball. Over the next week, I want to make sure that there is a smooth transition of my cooperating teacher taking back over full time, so I want to assist him in anyway I can.