REFLECTION ON LESSON TWO
I was very hesitant going into this lesson, because I did not know if it was going to be engaging enough for these specific children. The students in my fourth grade class need a lot of structure and discipline. I was confident that I could carry out my behavior management skills, but this type of language arts lesson was very information based. What I find helpful with my class is to incorporate a game within the lesson so that this way it will help the students to focus. I’m extremely satisfied with my decision to carry this out, because it seemed that with this game the students took an interest in what they were learning. Ultimately, this was my goal and to accomplish it makes me very pleased.
Planning this lesson was an intense process. I was doing my best to include challenging questions so that the students were forced to focus and pay attention. I feel that my asking questions, this will help me in assessing the students. It will help me understand who needs more guidance with understanding the material. Besides asking a lot of questions, I decided to make this lesson very straightforward. After my lesson, I found this to be the best strategy I could take. The simpler I made this lesson, the easier it was for the students to take in all of the information and process it. During the process of planning this lesson, I made sure that even though it was straightforward, I definitely wanted to include a game of some sort. This game was an essential part of my lesson. From experience, I know that these students are very competitive and that if I had them work towards winning a prize then they would most likely be very attentive.
During my lesson, I felt the students were focusing. I saw a lot of eyes on me the entire time, although their were one or two students being disruptive. I challenged these students to repeat what I had just explained. This was in an effort to help them realize that the material they were learning is very important. I believe this definitely helped, because afterward they stopped fooling around and started to pay attention. I received a numerous amount of great questions during the lesson which made me think the students were making the effort to understand the material. Once I began to explain that they were going to play a game and receive prizes if they came up with the correct answer, I saw that all of the students were suddenly very attentive. I was pleased by this because I knew the students would be learning. I received positive feedback from the students, because they were all asking questions, answering those that I asked them, and giving me examples of words with prefixes.
If I could change one thing in my lesson, I would have slowed down the pace of the lesson. I felt a little rushed because my time was very limited, because the students had to move on to another lesson. If I had more time, I would have explained the material in two or three ways using many examples instead of explaining it in one or two ways using just one or two examples. Besides this, I think my lesson went as planned. The students enjoyed the worksheet I had given them, especially because I gave them prizes like pencils and erasers if they answered the questions correctly.
As a teacher in the field, I learned that you have to plan your lessons based on the personalities of your students. I purposely included a game in my lesson, because I knew this was the only way to keep my students focused. It is extremely important to get to know your students and base your lessons on their needs.
Planning this lesson was an intense process. I was doing my best to include challenging questions so that the students were forced to focus and pay attention. I feel that my asking questions, this will help me in assessing the students. It will help me understand who needs more guidance with understanding the material. Besides asking a lot of questions, I decided to make this lesson very straightforward. After my lesson, I found this to be the best strategy I could take. The simpler I made this lesson, the easier it was for the students to take in all of the information and process it. During the process of planning this lesson, I made sure that even though it was straightforward, I definitely wanted to include a game of some sort. This game was an essential part of my lesson. From experience, I know that these students are very competitive and that if I had them work towards winning a prize then they would most likely be very attentive.
During my lesson, I felt the students were focusing. I saw a lot of eyes on me the entire time, although their were one or two students being disruptive. I challenged these students to repeat what I had just explained. This was in an effort to help them realize that the material they were learning is very important. I believe this definitely helped, because afterward they stopped fooling around and started to pay attention. I received a numerous amount of great questions during the lesson which made me think the students were making the effort to understand the material. Once I began to explain that they were going to play a game and receive prizes if they came up with the correct answer, I saw that all of the students were suddenly very attentive. I was pleased by this because I knew the students would be learning. I received positive feedback from the students, because they were all asking questions, answering those that I asked them, and giving me examples of words with prefixes.
If I could change one thing in my lesson, I would have slowed down the pace of the lesson. I felt a little rushed because my time was very limited, because the students had to move on to another lesson. If I had more time, I would have explained the material in two or three ways using many examples instead of explaining it in one or two ways using just one or two examples. Besides this, I think my lesson went as planned. The students enjoyed the worksheet I had given them, especially because I gave them prizes like pencils and erasers if they answered the questions correctly.
As a teacher in the field, I learned that you have to plan your lessons based on the personalities of your students. I purposely included a game in my lesson, because I knew this was the only way to keep my students focused. It is extremely important to get to know your students and base your lessons on their needs.
