Well, I survived my first ever class taught completely on my own.
All in all, it wasn't actually all that bad! However, there's a few things I want to take note of for future use:
1) If I'm doing any kind of reflections journal, I should hang on to it and not let them take it home. During this class I used them more at the beginning, and when I stopped using it regularly, something else that needs to be kept in mind is the need for consistency, students would forget to bring their journals to class or they lost them.
2) If I'm going to take a lot of time for them to do some kind of project, it better be something that they're going to remember and care about for a long time too.
3) If they're going to spend a long time doing something in class, have plans for things to fill up more time after if they finish quickly or maybe give set amount of time during class and extra time at the end to work more. *Note: Make sure there's extra time to work on it, especially if that's the only time being allotted.
