Lesson Reflection

In these two weeks I taught on my own. That was an interesting and exciting experience. I think the students really enjoyed my lesson, which was exciting. However, I was a little bummed out when my cooperating teacher did a very similar lesson right before I taught mine. All in all though, it was just more practice for the students and I think they are really starting to get a tighter grasp on sequencing. I was a little frustrated because I wanted to try some different attention getters during my lesson, but I have only seen my cooperating teacher use one of them so I had to keep repeating the same attention getter, which I found to be less effective. One of my partners taught this week also they did a good job. I felt that she needed to have

However, there was one question at the end where I could tell the students were confused. I asked the students if anyone could explain to me in their own words what sequencing is. The students all looked at me confused, then one student asked the setting? I could tell that they did not understand what I was asking them so I rephrased the question I said sequencing is when you put things in…. and then all of the students shouted order. I knew that they knew what sequencing was I just did not ask the students the question in a way that they understood and that would set them up for success. One questioning strategy that I used was to prevent students from calling out the answer. Instead, the student had to be called on in order

This was effective because it gave other students a longer wait time to think about different answers. This allowed for my students who do not normally answer questions to be called upon and to apply their knowledge to the conversation. Another questioning strategy that I used was that I asked higher order questions, as well as lower level questions. This allowed me to engage all of my students, no matter their academic level. This had a huge impact on learning because everyone was challenged, and everyone was able to succeed, which is the ideal learning environment in my opinion. One other questioning strategy I used was I randomly passed out animal cards and then I called on different people based upon the animal they had. This allowed me to call on students who do not normally speak up, but in a more fun way that makes them feel comfortable sharing their answers. These animals were also used in the lesson and I asked them questions, while we were reading the story based upon what character they had. This helped all of the students to stay engaged and focused on my lesson. In order to continue to grow in this area I need to learn more questioning strategies. My strategies are very simplistic right