Sarah - 3Rd Grade - Post Observation Reflection
Date:12/19/08
Post-Observation Reflection (B-4)
DIRECTIONS: With your support provider,use evidence from the observation to capture key insights about your teaching.
Post-Observation Key Insights:Participating teacher reflection:
Reflection plays an integral part in becoming an efficient and effective teacher. Through this informal classroom observation by my support provider, I was able to gain insight about my teaching practices. This insight is able to guide me in recognizing areas of growth and accomplishment. People often see in others what we don’t always acknowledge or recognize in ourselves.
The organization of my lesson was shown through reviewing previous stories to remind students of our theme and focus for the unit. I was able to organize my lesson through the lesson plan that I had planned and typed out. In the lesson plan I listed my objectives, the content standards, and events that would take place during the lesson.
During my lesson I was able to see that the students needed a change of pace, so I switched the order I had planned on doing things. This allowed the students to settle down and gain their composure. I had them “shift gears” and work on an independent assignment to “cool down” which was related to the vocabulary that we were learning. This assignment was to illustrate the vocabulary that we had previously been learning. Once the students were finished illustrating each word, we then returned to making motions for each word. Making this change from the original lesson plan was necessary and beneficial for the students.
Key evidence shared after observation:
One way I made sure to allow all children ample time to think about a question I asked was to do what I call “think time and answer time”. When I point to my head it means think time. Then when I point to them, it means answer time. This allowed for the students that need a couple extra seconds or minutes to think, the ability to participate without always being left behind.
One way I was able to get students attention was to say, “One, two, three, eyes on me,” and the students responded, “One, two, eyes on you.” This proved to be an effective way to get the attention of the students.
Insights:
Through this lesson one of my goals was to get the most active participation as possible, and while I did succeed at getting most of the class involved, there was one student who was not fully participating. I would like to focus in one this student and figure out what motivates her and how I can get her excited and involved in my lessons.
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