Reflection:
Direct instruction video #1 My lesson was implemented mostly as I had planned. The difficulties came with the videotaping. Students were a bit silly at times. The person doing the video was a student, and at times it has poor quality due to the students ' inexperience. If I were going to teach this lesson again, I would have some secondary written source for the students to evaluate, not just the pictures. They seemed to understand the relationships of the five themes of history in the drawings. I would like to challenge them to make the same connections with written works. The students seemed to like the color coding of the pictures. I would keep that the same because it engaged some of the lower readers in the class. They …show more content…
By their answering my questions and the work they showed on the independent practice. The students were very engaged in the discussion and the topic. They would much rather have a group discussion then and learn together, then have a reading assignment and a worksheet. They were able to grasp the concept, apply it quickly, and will likely retain the information. When this group is able to explain it to me and to each other as well justify their answers, they have the concept mastered. They seemed to enjoy using the pictures, and colored pencils in the classroom. I had 100% participation in the discussion as well as 100% turned in their independent practice. That is an extremely high participation rate for this classroom of …show more content…
I was going to have my teachers associate sit with a student who would likely need redirection and support, however my associate was pulled during that class period. The student I was concerned about, was able to stay on task and complete his assignment with few nonverbal cues and verbal reinforcement during the lesson. I did not have any students who had difficulties in today 's lessons. It was just the idea that I was video taping my lesson for a class I was taking that made them a bit silly. Otherwise the lesson went well. It almost went too well, as the lesson progressed much faster than normal. Normally, it would have taken 35 to 40 minutes to cover the same material. I did not record all of the independent practice, as I was walking around the room and could not show the students working. The next steps are to extend their understanding using written sources. We will then start looking at individual early civilizations, and apply the five themes of history to them individually, looking for commonalities. Students will develop a project about an civilization and analyze the civilization for the five themes, focusing on the high point and the ending of the civilization. Behaviorally, I will continue to challenge them in their thinking and following classroom expectations, as the are capable of doing
Direct instruction video #1 My lesson was implemented mostly as I had planned. The difficulties came with the videotaping. Students were a bit silly at times. The person doing the video was a student, and at times it has poor quality due to the students ' inexperience. If I were going to teach this lesson again, I would have some secondary written source for the students to evaluate, not just the pictures. They seemed to understand the relationships of the five themes of history in the drawings. I would like to challenge them to make the same connections with written works. The students seemed to like the color coding of the pictures. I would keep that the same because it engaged some of the lower readers in the class. They …show more content…
By their answering my questions and the work they showed on the independent practice. The students were very engaged in the discussion and the topic. They would much rather have a group discussion then and learn together, then have a reading assignment and a worksheet. They were able to grasp the concept, apply it quickly, and will likely retain the information. When this group is able to explain it to me and to each other as well justify their answers, they have the concept mastered. They seemed to enjoy using the pictures, and colored pencils in the classroom. I had 100% participation in the discussion as well as 100% turned in their independent practice. That is an extremely high participation rate for this classroom of …show more content…
I was going to have my teachers associate sit with a student who would likely need redirection and support, however my associate was pulled during that class period. The student I was concerned about, was able to stay on task and complete his assignment with few nonverbal cues and verbal reinforcement during the lesson. I did not have any students who had difficulties in today 's lessons. It was just the idea that I was video taping my lesson for a class I was taking that made them a bit silly. Otherwise the lesson went well. It almost went too well, as the lesson progressed much faster than normal. Normally, it would have taken 35 to 40 minutes to cover the same material. I did not record all of the independent practice, as I was walking around the room and could not show the students working. The next steps are to extend their understanding using written sources. We will then start looking at individual early civilizations, and apply the five themes of history to them individually, looking for commonalities. Students will develop a project about an civilization and analyze the civilization for the five themes, focusing on the high point and the ending of the civilization. Behaviorally, I will continue to challenge them in their thinking and following classroom expectations, as the are capable of doing