Analysis Of Mrs. Frase Kindergarten

This episode was taught in Mrs. Frase Kindergarten classroom at Lohr elementary in the Perry local school district. I taught this lesson on Thursday, 11 2016. The lesson I taught was a math lesson that pertained to the idea of one less. The students have already been taught the concept of one more, adding one, but this is their first experience with the one less or taking one away idea. There was a total of 19 students in the class on the day I taught my lesson. The total class size is 20 but one student was sick on the day I taught my lesson. One student is sitting off to the side with Mrs. Frase, this student achieves at a much higher level when an adult is sitting with him and helping to keep him focused as he works. My lesson was taught …show more content…
I found in my own reflection of the lesson that I would have found a better way to manage the down time between task and the down time after students had completed the task I had given. Pacing is the weakest aspect of my teaching at the point in time. I have been told that pacing comes with experience and I believe that but I know I must be intentional about my pacing during a lesson. I was moving too quickly at the beginning of my lesson, but Mrs. Frase encouraged me saying that I improved my pacing as I taught my lesson. I believe that dividing the students into small groups during the cube counting would have been and effective way to help eliminate down time as I could have given each group different levels of task keeping students engaged for longer amounts of time. Based on my own revision and the advice of Mrs. Frase I would like to work on my board writing skills. It cannot be seen as well in the video due to the compressed size but my board writing is a skill that I need to be constantly thinking about and something that I need to be intentional about improving as I continue my education and my