Geometry Classroom Analysis

When I completed this lesson I actually felt I should re-think my decision to become an educator. Mrs. Anderson makes this job look easy. I had prepared my science lesson plan Monday and scheduled to start a 3-day lesson on Wednesday. I tried to keep my lesson close to the basal/textbook. I feel as though the students responded positively. They were responsible in raising their hands to answer questions. I had a note to “slow down” in my notes. This helped me pace my lesson appropriately. I felt confident….and then I did not! HOWEVER, this time I did not speed up my speaking and rush through the lesson as quickly as possible. I added a few examples that were not on my plan with the hopes to explain matter to the students and I believe that helped one or two students. I felt, as a class, we stayed on topic the entire class. There were a

From the very beginning of the course, teachers should begin to analyse their learners through initial assessment methods. The assessments best suited to guide improvements in student learning are quizzes, tests, writing assignments, and other assessments such as a group activity. These can easily give the teacher/tutor an insight into the learning needs of the learners. Also

As a practicing teaching, I had the opportunity to assess students learning and provide them with feedback. This took place during a series of lessons (artefact 4) I taught to a year 8 Health and Physical Education class. Through the course each lesson taught and during professional experience, I formally and informally provided the students with feedback. There were opportunities to use formative feedback and assessment as well as summative feedback and assessment.

b. The second thing I would liked to have seen done differently would be to have less pdf lessons and more auditory and interactive lessons. There were some lessons that had links and audio but the majority of them didn’t work. Sometimes when I’m reading a lot of new information at once (especially on a computer) I can just be reading words and not actually learning anything at all. Because of this I had to go back and read lessons multiple times (especially in unit 2).

I will walk around the classroom taking notes about each students’ progress, while they work independently and during guided practice. On students desk there will also be colored cards to explain where each student believes they are. A green card will explain that the student understands it, a yellow card means they understand some of it, and red means they do not understand how to complete the work. Data will be kept on a chart with every students’ name. This assessment will show me where additional accommodations may need to be made; therefore, meeting the needs of students with exceptionalities. If I notice a student not being able to understand how to solve the problems, accommodations can be set to help students understand what they are working

Through completing this activity, I learned more than I have with any other activity I have done thus far while earning my Education Specialist degree. I had to observe a teacher and provide constructive feedback using the Framework for Teaching. This observation included a pre-conference where the teacher told me what she wanted me to pay particular attention to. It required that I observe in real-time, rather than simply using a video where I can pause frequently. I then had to analyze the data I collected during the observation, in order to determine strengths and areas for improvement that I shared during the post-conference. The teacher was a master teacher and thought the lesson went very well. She was shocked when I had some ideas for how to improve her instruction. I mentioned that students seemed fidgety, and she could incorporate more cooperative structures to get students more active in their learning. I also thought she needed cooperative roles for students when they completed their group work, that way everyone was accountable for the work.

During this semester I was lucky to be placed at Mink Shoals in a fifth grade class. I taught a total of five lessons. For my assessment chart I choose to show the progress that my students made on the math lesson. They took a pre-test and a post test. I knew that math was a good subject for about half of the class, and half of the class struggled. I knew this was going to be difficult to teach. Before I taught my lesson I did a lot of planning, but before I planned I worked with students every day in a math group. These math groups showed me what the students understood and did not understand. When I planned my lesson I talked to my cooperating teacher to see what I should go over if I wanted to help prepare them for the smaterbalance. After we talked, I decided to look up standards, and practice math tests to see what I should review for the test. After looking everything over

Which the children do not learn more from me not knowing about a certain subject. My spelling is another area that I could improve on because if a child needs and wants to know how to spell a word and I do not know how to spell that word then the child is not learning how to spell the word, but if I did not know I or the child could refer to a dictionary to find the word and spell it correctly. Behaviour management is another one of my areas that I need to improve on, this is a negative to have because children will over step barriers between student teacher relationships and disrupt every lesson because children know I will not challenge their behaviour. These strengths and room for improvements were discussed between me the teacher and the teaching assistant that I work with.

I don’t feel I managed equipment or space well in this lesson. I should have had the paddles out and the balls ready instead of having the students get them out of the ben. However, I do feel that I managed teacher movement well in this lesson. I made sure that I was moving at every moment that way I could accurate feedback to my students. If I had a group of 14 students, I would then break them down into groups of 2 or 4 depending on what sporting we are playing. I would do it this way so that I can see everybody and give appropriate feedback.

During my first year at a new high school, my pre-ap geometry teacher saw how

Based on the outcomes from Day 2, what can you determine regarding the effectiveness of instruction of the group lesson and rotations/center activities? The second lesson was taught using a guided reading approach and the class discussed important text features that were present in the passage they were to read on their own. I had high objectives for students since the answers to the formative were covered during the guided reading activity. Still, there were students who did not meet my objective, even though all the grades improved Based on the spreadsheet, the students that did not meet the objective are individuals I pull during independent reading for support or struggle with staying on task. Students may benefit from a friendly reminder to stay on task or have the questions read to them to ensure they know what the questions are asking them. The students who meet the objective benefited from the guided reading practice and will do well utilizing the same skills they learned in center 2 and 3.

Problems I experienced were not having a great area content, but I was lacking complete knowledge. I think my content and language objectives worked well, as for the other concepts lacked in details. I think I was more involved with the content and did not give enough information in when it came to interaction and lesson delivery. I think the involvement should have been explained at greater length. I lacked the focus on what I should do rather than the students.

One area where my student struggle was fluency. During the class, he asked a question and he had trouble making a complete sentence. I gave my student a

For the most part, the students were behaved and engaged in the lesson. Most of the students were actively participating in the lesson and discussing the North East region. A few students, at times, were calling out and a little chatty. I have a very nice class but, at times, they can be very talkative. In addition, there were a few students that were either, not sitting properly or were distracted and in need of redirection. At the end of the lesson, I reminded the students that I was looking for students that were waiting nice and quietly to come up to the board to drag and group the states.

The key problems, which I unfortunately was unable to identify in my first assessment, would be the lack of digital and collaborative learning practices in my teaching. These could be due to the following reasons: