Dosch Reflection 2

 

During my second lesson, I had great participation from all but one student. These students are considered on-level and overall did an excellent job during the lesson following directions and participating. As soon as the lesson began, I had one student who refused to participate in a meaningful way, so I gave her one warning, and then when her behavior continued to disrupt the lesson, I asked her to go move her license from green to yellow (red is the worst place your license can be).  I believed that even after the discipline issue I dealt with, all the students in the group achieved the lesson objective. As soon as the student came back to the group, her behavior was much better, and she did her best to catch up to where we were at in the lesson. Just like in my first lesson, the students were engaged because of how short the lesson was. They enjoyed being able to draw pictures that related to their learning. I think the strengths of my lesson was that they got to do something they enjoyed (coloring) but they were still getting practice with words that had the letter u in them. I think the only limitation on the lesson was that I thought it could have been more challenging for them. As a teacher, I noticed (as with the first lesson) that I was much more relaxed and confident during this lesson. I felt it was much easier to deal with discipline issues with a smaller group, and I felt like I could more readily answer questions because there weren’t as many students so I had more of a chance to interact with them on an individual basis. Working with small groups was a great experience that I hope to have more of next year and in the future because I really enjoyed it and felt like I had a lot of success with it.