I Think This Second Lesson Went Pretty Well

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

How successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know?

Another point that I found important to internalize was on reading comprehension. As discussed in the video, understanding vocabulary does not mean that students will comprehend what is being read.

The language arts lesson began with Ms. House having the students discuss the use of punctuation in a sentence. I liked how she sternly, but calmly was able to redirect students back to their seats when they came up the book. The students knew exactly what she meant and quickly listened to her. I also noticed how the majority of the times she called on a student whether or not they had their hand raised. This is a great practice because it prepares students to always think about the question asked and to have an answer ready. Ms. House had the students transition to the next activity by standing and shaking their arms and legs. I believe this is a great way to quickly give students a break and then redirect them to the next activity.

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 observed that the students were finding themselves hard to concentrate on the lesson plan and I believe there were couple of reasons why the lesson failed to captivate the interest of the students. One of the reason is because, the activity of watching a movie and answering couple questions lacked the critical thinking process. Also, the students had to watch the same story videos from different websites which just seemed meaningless. The materials were extremely repetitive. Throughout the lesson, students had hard time sitting still and seem to lack interest; their heads were on the desks. Lastly, there were no hooks in the lesson plan to captivate the students that will make them desire to learn the

One aspect of my lesson that I felt went well in the implementation of my lesson was the information being grasped by the learners. Before I began my lesson, I asked the learners some questions about the fun phonics letter. I started off by asking the children if they knew what the fun phonic letter for the week was, then I asked them to tell me some words that begins with the letter “Dd”. Next, I read a story called “Harry the dirty dog”. Throughout the story I asked some questions to keep the learners engaged. I asked them questions like “what words that begins with the letter “Dd” did you hear?” I can tell they were engaged because their answers were never off topic. The learners were so excited about the end result of their letter “Dd”

Having a lesson the not only engages the student, but gets them interested is vital. When you read the Bible, God not only share scripture, but he also teaches us in many ways. God has a plan for all of us to be his teacher in a way to spread the words of the Bible. One passage of scripture that stood out to me this week with this assignment was, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you” (Psalm 32:8, New Standard Version). The passage gives you the strength to teach students in the way God sees his plan for all of us. By remembering that passage and relating it to long-term retention and how we get students to learn and remember the loads of information passed to them is important. God is our master teacher. If we follow in his footsteps we can be

I chose to use the single subject approach to teaching this lesson. This lesson plan is just one of a whole week’s worth of lessons. They are all used to help teach reading and literature. When I was developing this lesson I took into consideration my methods of teaching. This lesson allows the students to work on their groups skills but also allows them some individual work time. Some students may prefer group learning and some may prefer individual learning. With this lesson there is a balance of

I like the fact that when she asked the question about what happened to her sweater, her students immediately raised their hands. They were all into the story. They wanted to know more about the story. She taught her lesson very well. After telling her story and giving clues that defines main idea, she asked her class what they think main idea means. I think that it is a brilliant way to make your students think and connect. Her students were able to use context clues, and they were able to come up with their own definition of main idea. I noticed that Ms. Bannon used a projector to project the pages of the book so that her students can read along. It is a good way of getting student involved. It also allows for students to practice reading, while Ms. Bannon’s reading out loud. After that, she made her students communicate with one another. It is important to let students communicate with one another. Students interacting with one another is a positive learning technique because they can learn from one another. Also, that way Ms. Bannon is not the only one doing the talking, and that way there wouldn’t be so many teacher to student

Additionally, another aspect I found ineffective was the lack of interactive activities in the class with the learning material. Though the knowledge presented in the class was engaging, I would have found it fascinating if there were opportunities for students to interact with the information. Interactive activities in the classroom would have kept the class from getting too predictable or dull. Also, activities would also assist people who learn in different ways, such as hands on

I personally think that my lesson went pretty well. It seemed like many people were engaged and they participated. There are things that I could have done to make the activity more challenging for the consonant digraphs and consonant blends, but overall I think the activity was fun. I felt like the students payed attention to when I was speaking at the beginning and the end of the activity, which was ideal for any lesson.

Finally, reviewing the answers to the worksheet as a class. This is a solid middle of the lesson. However, some ways in which I would improve the lesson are to first include the strategy of walk and talk when the students are discussing the diagram at the top of the chart activity. Including the walk and talk activity helps to incorporate the kinesthetic modality into the lesson. It also helps to get the students up and out of their seats in between their graphic organizer and their worksheet, which will help to benefit the students with ADHD. Another way that I would improve the middle of the lesson is I would have the students work on the Who You Gonna Call? worksheet in pairs. The reason I would have the students work on this worksheet in pairs is because I think it will help them to better understand the material. I would have the students discuss with their partner the decision they are going to make to help Wally. This discussion will help the students better understand the material. One final way that I would improve the middle of the lesson is that I would have large versions of the graphic organizer, and large graph paper. I would use the large version of the graphic organizer to help go over and review the answers with the class. This large graphic organizer can also help to guide discussion. The large graph paper will be used to help with the discussion of the chart. The teacher can help create a chart about how involved the citizens are, and how responsible the member of government is for citizens. The teacher will then use this graph to help the students check

At the beginning of the lesson, I felt that the classroom procedures were a little hectic. After lunch, it takes the class a few minutes to settle down. The students use the restroom and get a drink and then they have about 10 minutes of silent reading to settle down. Once the packets were handed out and the students had a crayon and pencil ready to go, the class felt a lot more settled.

One things that I would change is the amount of content that was taught. It was a lot to take in, all in one lesson. I would split the lesson into at least two, if not three separate lessons. I would change it so that the only thing that we talked about in this lesson was, what money is, what it looks like, its traits, and how much each coin is worth. This still plenty of material to cover in one lesson. This lesson took proximity twenty minutes with college students, it would take at least double the time in a first-grade classroom. Another thing that I would change is the closing. I closed the lesson with discussion questions that wrapped up what had been taught and then the students watched a video to review what they had learned. (See video) Having the video at the end left the lesson feeling open ended. The discussion questions should be moved to after the video, or the video should be moved to an earlier time in the lesson. Ending the lesson with questions instead of a video will give a more definite ending to the