Final Post

Reflection of your lesson
I feel that my lesson went great! It was kind of hard to keep total control over the class for the whole period, even though that idea is unrealistic.
• How did you (and your partner) prepare?
My partner and I met up a few times after class to discuss what ideas we were coming up with on our own to give each other an idea as to where the other one thought the lesson should go. Then we met in the library a few days before the lesson plans were due to create a lesson plan trying to use each other’s ideas without leaving anything out. The morning of our mini teach met together a hour or so before class to make sure we both were clear with the plan, our podcast worked, and to set up the materials we brought in.
• Explain the objective and assessment measures of your lesson
I believe our assessment was a little less formal, meaning test and essays. We really felt that we could determine just how well the students understand the lesson by listening to them having them answer questions, and working together.
• Was your lesson plan executed exactly as it was written?
I wouldn’t say that our lesson plan went exactly the way it was written but it went well enough that after the lesson was over I felt like we succeed. I believe having that feeling is must important as a teacher.
• What was the most important thing you tried to teach your students?
I believe the main thing that I wanted to teach my students was that not every story is the same kind of story, and that our circle was a circle story and it would end the same way it began bring it around like a circle.

• How do you think it went?
It went completely different then I believed it would go walking in, both in a good and a bad way. I felt that the class may try to test us being that our lesson was kind of later in the semester plus my partner was known for causing some “trouble” during other lessons. Yes!! The class sure did test us but I believe that it made our lesson better it showed our classroom management skills and how we could work as a team.
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• What did I learn from your students?
I can’t really think of anything I learned from my students as first graders, but as college women I learned that they are great actors and can really go into character.
• What would you have done differently?
The one thing that I would have changed is we plan to use a behavior chart but we decided against it for some reason believing that we wouldn’t need it. We did do a good job without it but it would have been another tool to use.
• How could you have made the lesson even more effective?
I know that all lessons can be made better but as of right now I can’t think of anything I would change. What really makes me feel this way is my students agreed that they learned something from our lesson even as college women.
• What do you think you need to improve or do differently?
I believe that activity that we had the student participate in on the floor I think that we should posted the picture on the board and maybe have the students help each other put the pictures in order by coming to the board one at a time, because with the students in such close quarters they really wanted to touch each other forcing them to become side tracked.
Reflection of Podcast
• How did you and your partner plan to use the podcast in your lesson?
We planned to use the podcast to introduce the students to the story. The first half of the podcast played great the second half was kind of low but we used that to our advantage. With the podcast being so low the students had to lesson closely, also we promised them if they behaved we would go to the computer lab and record it together.
• Did you use it during the class lesson? Why or why not?
Yes we used it to introduce the story.
• How did your students react to the podcast?
The students really did stop to lesson to the podcast.
• How do you think it went?
It was something new, something I had never done before.
• What could you have done to infuse the podcast into the lesson more effectively?
I think for this lesson that was the best way.
• Do you have any other ideas of how you would use podcasting in your lesson or future lessons?
For older students I would allow them to create their own. Or I would have other readings recorded for them to listen and write journals on at home.