Response to Unit Planning

this experienced kind of sucked, mainly becuase it was a wake up call that i am going to have to do alot of work. One problem we had right off the bat was finding time to meet. We both had busy schedules, something that i anticipate will remain the same when we become teachers. Once paul and i got together we didnt have too much trouble. we chose to do "Imperialism" as our topic. We ran into a problem when trying to fill out the calendar, we werent sure how in depth we should go each day, and it is hard to regulate how much time activities and discussions will take. some days kids feel like talking and can make a topic blow by, but other days if they are not active the experience could be so slow. I am not big on planning, i more or less like to be spontaneous, and i sure as hell am a procrastinator...these two things might end up hurting me if i dont make some changes. It just seems really hard to gage how a class might go. in the long run i feel as though getting input from other people will ease the pain of coming up with useful lesson plans, it really did help to have another person to brainstorm with. I think things will be alot better once i have more in front of me about the class i will be teaching. i am just going to have to put a little more time into planning once i become a teacher so that i dont make an ass out of myself.