Reflection On Educational Lesson

Mrs. Lawrence: When planning a lesson, I start with the objective. What is it I am supposed to be cover. Once I know, I start with a hook. I access their prior knowledge then I move on with either an example or model. All along I ask questions to make sure the students

Reflection is thought by linking recent experience with early experience to promote more complex and interrelated mental models or patterns. The thinking involves looking for commonalities, differences, and interrelations beyond their superficial elements. The goal is to develop higher order thinking skills.

Throughout this class, I have been able to rediscover a part of myself that has been hidden away since high school. When I decided to attend the University of Northern Iowa and become a Biology BS and a Biochem BS major, I in a way decided to put to death part of the old me that I liked. I was an entertainer, and this class has helped bring that out in me again.

My fieldwork for my diverse populations class was stationed at Brightwood Elementary School. The teacher that I was assigned to was Tonya Johnson. She is an EC pullout teacher that helps accommodate students when needed. During the time that I have been at Brightwood, Ms. Johnson has had me work with several different students and assist them when needed.

I have had the experience to teach the class four times during the semester and each of them has helped me to learn a lot. Dr. Walenciak has been traveling a lot so I have been in charge of the class those times. The first time, I was terrified the day before of the class. I needed to talk about the chapter of Ostrander’s book that talks about the history of Christian education. I prepared myself a lot and the day of the class I divided the time so the students could work on a project that we have. I try to summarize the chapter while explaining it. I planned to talk for 25 minutes and I ended up talking for 15 minutes. I was talking too fast and skipping important points without realizing about that. At the time of the class, I felt confident but I was a little nervous and it was harder to express my ideas in English but I manage to overcome that. I was able to explain everything but I was a little disappointed that I could not meet my time goal. After that, I ask them some questions to see if they have understood the topic. It was interesting because I could feel somehow the feeling of the teacher when nobody participates in the class. At the beginning, everyone was quiet but after a while, they start participating. To finish the class, I gave them some time to get in groups and discuss their progress for the final project. I asked for some feedback after that to some students and they told me

Today imam tell you a story and teach you a lesson. Do not punch a garage door with all your might, because you will lose. IM teling you this because I did that once and it was not the greastist thing that’s ever happened to me. The day starts at school, the last day of *th grade, and I was dating A girl name Shay hughes and we went to a little festival. We danced, I learned how to do a back flip. Then shay said lets go for a walk. So her and I went for a walk for about four hours, we got lunch, went swimming and then we went back to the festivsl. At this time I was going to Dgf witch is dilworth glinden felton, and I was in 8th going into 9th. I made a lot of friends their but of coruse where ever you go your gunna have bullies. His named Is Brayden Johnson, he is my age and alittle taller then me maybe same highte now.

For my lesson, I used your instruction feedback to change the meat of my lesson. I kept your ideas because I really thought they would help my teaching go a lot smoother. I really liked how you choose the words beginning, middle, and end to describe to Ellie what I expected from her when comprehending what I read to her. I also thought that your wording was a lot better than mine. I thought that your feedback helped make my lesson become a lot stronger than it was before.

Reflecting on my past educational studies, how has the decisions that I have made in the past impacted on my educational journey? This is one of many questions that I have regarding my education that I will be focusing on in this paper, whilst a reflecting on my key moments during my educational journey in connection to analysing them according to the 3 domains of education.

During my internship experience in my school, I had the opportunity of seating in a pre-conference and a post-conference with a new educator who was being formally evaluated. The steps that I took for the observation, reflection, and the sharing of the findings with the teacher are almost identical to what I experienced in my school. However, the evaluation process differs from teachers who are new to the system from those who have been teaching there for years. There is no feedback or expectation for growth for veteran teachers.

Being a teacher requires you to be able to alter your lesson plans at any moment. There were several times during this lesson that I had to do this. The biggest in the moment change that I needed to make was when we were modeling how to give the survey. Mrs. Vavra had told me practicing giving the survey to our class should take ten to fifteen minutes. It ended up taking the whole math class time. I felt that I had to make sure that the students knew what they were doing before I sent them to survey another class. Since that took the whole time that pushed back the lesson that we were supposed to also learn that day. Using the interactive lessons that go along with the textbook they used worked well for the students to get some hands on practice with the material before I sent them back to their seats to work on their worksheet. Getting the students up and moving also helps. I also tried to vary my instructional strategies. I did this by having the students to view a PowerPoint with the information on it and watch a video to explain the graph instead of me teaching it. The review PowerPoint that I had planned didn’t work out the way that it had on my computer when I previewed it again before class. The PowerPoint was supposed to be all interactive and done on the Smartboard. Instead I had to sit on the computer and go from slide to slide. This caused me to have to be away from the students and not being able to make sure that they were staying on task. I was required to

The lesson was and remains the basic form of the organization of the educational process. The essence of the lesson is the organization by the teacher of a diverse work of students in the assimilation of new knowledge, skills, and development. A modern lesson in math is a lesson in which the teacher skillfully uses all possible forms of organizing the cognitive activity of students. My cooperating teacher is a perfect example of it.

Drama, as Heatchote ( Wagner, 1999) put it, is not special . It is something that people do everyday for different purposes , in a complex process that involve their emotion, imaginations, and intelligence. People recreate ( re-live) a past event or visualize ( pre-live) an upcoming role that they have to cope with . If it does not happen visually for other people to see, then it may occur only in our minds . One close example of this mental imaging activity is the act of lesson planning by teachers. When planning a lesson I often imagine what I will do in a class to make sure that I would do it properly . I will think how to begin : what ice breakers I will use to build up a case and how I will deliver them. As I think of core activities to have in a class, my mind also wonders about what jokes I will tell when students show signs of boredom and how I will deliver them. At times, my mind brought me to the memories of past incidents or successful teaching events and have all them mashed up with the plan. Soon as I have them organized, these staged plans are stored on writing forms , but many of them are just stored in my memory.

I found the parent panel very informative – I loved being able to hear from parents about their opinions on important school related subjects such as new teachers, multicultural education, and homework. Personally, the most interesting aspect of the panel was listening to the parents speak about their thoughts on multicultural education. All four parents expressed that they did not see the importance of multicultural education being included in their child’s school curriculum. One parent explained that her daughter’s school has a culture night where families can come dressed up in clothing specific to their culture and bring ethnic food dishes. However, this parent said that she is fine with that being the only multicultural aspect in her daughter’s school. I found these statements interesting due to another class I am currently taking – ED 525 – whose sole purpose is the implementation of multicultural education into classrooms. In the class, the professor stresses how multicultural education is one the most important aspects of a school’s climate; I was surprised to hear from parents who did not agree.

Today was a very interesting day in Mrs. Beach’s classroom. When I arrived, Mrs. Beach asked about how my lesson went last week and began to explain what today was going to look like. Since today was the last day of school before Thanksgiving Break, Mrs. Beach was using the entire school day as a catch-up day. During my entire observation, the students were working on missing assignments. The teacher has a small whiteboard at the front of the classroom with a list of the recent assignments that have been done in class. If students had not completed or turned in these assignments, their number would be written under the title of the assignment, indicating that it was incomplete. Many of these assignments were very simple and were having students practice their math and writing fluency; however, all of the students were working on publishing their Turkey writings. Some students were still in the rough draft stage of the writing process, but the majority of the students were working on their publications. With that being said, it was pretty challenging to help students on these assignments since they mostly involved copying a story or quick recall; therefore, I spent about a hour and fifteen minutes of my time walking around and taking notes about the things that the students were working on. There were a few times where a student had a question and I was able to answer it, but for the most part, many of the students were independent.

Lesson planning for this unit was and will continue to be strategic and complicated. In order for students to grasp each concept, the concept must be broken down into smaller concepts. Each lesson will have to be well paced, where each lesson does not go too fast and cause students to be overwhelmed and stressed or to slow and cause boredom or irritation. The lessons will include a few accommodations that include many visuals and graphics and the teacher candidate will sometimes write for the students for the writing assignments.