Anna Papst
Engl. 493
Dr. Sean Agriss
11.30.2013
American
Born Chinese
Reflection
For starters I thought I was going
to be a lot more nervous than I was. I knew that I would be teaching to my
peers and that made it seem more difficult but all in all it wasn’t. I was
extremely prepared and had gone over my lesson many times before teaching it.
My classroom management was effective. They did not get off task and when they
did for a second, then I reigned them back in. One of our classroom rules, the
only one actually is that you do not talk while the teacher is talking. It
ruins the educational dynamic and atmosphere that the teacher is creating.
There are plenty of other times that the students get to talk in class. It
slows down the pace a lot when the teacher has to stop and deal with each
problem as it arises. I stuck to my guns and was not going to allow them to
walk on me.
Next time I teach this lesson, I will
connect the learning targets to the lesson. I will also make sure the students
meet the learning target by the end of the lesson. I should’ve tied the entry
task and the Quickwrite more to the standards or at least gone back and
referred to the learning targets for the day. I could’ve also asked how the
activities linked back to the learning target and the concept of Social Justice
that I had mapped out in my head for them to understand. I need to be more
sensitive that they aren’t necessarily picking up everything just because I
wrote the lesson that way.
I will not be snappy with my
comments. I assigned the Quickwrite and then went on and I totally had spaced
the Prompt for the Quickwrite. I was embarrassed. When I ask students to expand
more on their answers, I need to be more hospitable in the way I talk to them
and not be so short sounding. For this lesson I needed to make more of a
connection between the characters in the book and the students’ individual
identities. For them to learn the connection, I need to make it clear in my
teaching and questioning.
While students are reading, I need
to have them actively reading the text by marking it up and writing key phrases
or circling words and key phrases. How is reading and focusing on characters
going to help students write about themselves? I should have incorporated this
question into my lesson planning. I needed to make my purpose and meaning more
explicit for the students so that I make sure that they are understanding and
getting to where I want them to or at least making progress towards the goal
and targets for the lesson.
Also I need to work on my Exit Tasks
to make sure that it is more academic, because the students did not take it
seriously. I try to make it random every time to get to know my kids outside of
the academic, classroom environment, and I try to pick a question that every
student does not have to think so hard going out the door, and that every
student can answer.
I thought overall that my lesson was
okay and that the feedback will allow me to do a better, more thorough job in
the future. The feedback that I received was appropriate and allowed me to view
my lesson through my students’ eyes. I need all the feedback that I can get to
improve because it is not about me it is about student learning and success!
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