Field Experience

After teaching one of my One Day Teaching/Learning Plan and focusing it with the assessment and/or instructional strategies, I was able to obtain feedback from students on how well my lesson plan worked. At the end, I was able to reflect on how I taught the lesson, as well as gather feedback from the students. 

A. What would you change? 

From some of the feedback that I received from the students, I noticed that one of the things that they saw was that we needed more time to go over the lesson plan. Granted, we only had 30 minutes to review and work on it, students did pick up on it, yet they needed more time. Therefore, I would either have to reduce the content and just incorporate the main points, or incorporate more time so all the points are covered. 

B. What did you enjoy?

What I enjoyed about this was the fact that students did participate in the lesson plan in order for it to go smoothly. Students did participate by asking questions and helping each other out. I did ask the students if they enjoyed the small lesson, and most of them said yes. They enjoyed the fact that I spoke slowly, I repeated key words, I used different words to get the same point across, I translated from English to Spanish and vice-versa. 

Pre-Assessment

For this assignment, I was glad I looked into it before the weekend, if not, I would've been in a difficult position trying to find a group of students to assess. Working in a High School Continuation setting, I had a limited amount of "friendly"students I could pick from; but I managed to pick a few.

Since I wanted to get the complete feeling of a typical classroom, I picked one ELL student, one with special needs (ADHD), two Hispanic Americans, three Anglo Americans, and a Native American.  That constituted my small "friendly" group of 8.

The Pre-Assessment that I chose was the one for Monday which introduced the notion of Inequalities.

Students at first were not too happy to learn, but I tried to get their attention by breaking the ice. I asked student's how their weekend was, thus I asked them to share what they did, and what they would've liked to have done. I wrote a couple of the scenarios on the board, and wrote the inequality signs in the middle.

I explained to them that Inequalities could be used in multiple ways, including figuring out what was greater (or better) in their own opinion in regards to what they did.

I handed out a hard copy of my PPT presentation, and student's followed along. For my ELL student, I spoke slowly, I used figures, and translated specific key words. I made sure she understood what I was asking by asking her in Spanish to explain to me what she had understood.

Overall, students responded very well since they asked questions, and responded to the questions that I asked individually.

I would change my rubric key, because after reviewing what I taught the students, my rubric key does not justify what I want from them. I feel that I ended up doing the rubric key to grade myself, not the students.

Another area that I would change or modify would be not to get to social with the students. It tends to get students off track and then I end up spending more time getting them back on task.