July 4, 2007
Discuss your ideas about your first lesson plan and the comments you received. Where there any surprises in the feedback? Were they already in line with your thinking? How does your current philosophy of lesson planning and teaching compare with what you wrote on you first lesson? What changes will you consider?
Oh my gosh, blog team! I don't even want to blog about my first lesson plan. I did it for second graders and I got a great deal of feedback from the good doctor. Because of the class we had the day following my submission, the feedback was not surprising. As the discussions took place during class, I was kind of able to critique myself and yes most were in line with my thinking (after the class) so all the yellow highlights did not surprise me.
My current lesson plans have the "Opening", "Workperiod" and "Closing" which corresponds to the "Before" during" and "After" but what I rarely do is work through the task first and determing what questions might be asked by the students although I do have teacher questions ready. I just field student questions as they arise (and hope I have the answers). Going forward I will work through the tasks and see how many different strategies I can come up with myself.
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I too learned the importance of doing the assignment first.. it reveals so much.. and Taylor, welcome to the blog team.. I'm not mad that I gotta go back and respond to all those posts! grrrr..
I, too, am used to writing the before, during, and after portions of lesson plans, and the teacher questions, but I'll also have to get used to anticipating questions the students will ask. I always work throught the tasks before hand, but never really thought to anticipate student questions.
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