Marisa Carlucci
April 2013
How did you prepare?
A lot of the lesson was planned together, such as deciding what disciplinary measures to use, such as writing the word "WEAVE" on the board and erasing the letters when students misbehaved. One of the final things that we did was to review the lesson plan one last time. At that time, we also made the cards for our Family Feud game. I also searched for a suitable stopping point in the story because I did not think that we had enough time to finish it.
Explain the objective(s) and assessment measures of your lesson. (*You can add the lesson as an attachment if you choose)
Originally, we had too many objectives, so we needed to cut down. Our objectives are:
~SWBAT recall facts and details of a text.
The purpose of this objective was to show that the students were able to understand the events that occurred in the story.
~ SWBAT respond to a text by using questions (how, why, and what if).
The goal of this objective is to show that students were paying attention to the story that was read to then in class.
Our assessments were:
~Informal: Students will be asked some questions orally to see if they can recall parts of the text by playing the 2nd grade version of “Wheel of Fortune”. Students will be given an answer and thy must respond by putting the answer in the form of a question. Students will be broken into two groups.
This assessment was actually changed into “Family Feud”. Other than that, all criteria for this part of the assessment stayed the same. This part of the assessment was used to show that the students were paying attention to the story and that they were able to recall details.
~Formal: Students will be given a homework sheet in which they will be asked a series of open-ended questions regarding the recalling of facts or details.
Our main purpose with this assessment was to see if students could recall the events in the story after a long period of time.
Was your lesson plan executed exactly as it was written?
Our lesson plan was not executed exactly as it was written. We purposely changed “Wheel of Fortune” into “Family Feud” in our lesson.
What was the most important thing you tried to teach your “students”?
The most important thing that we tried to each our students was about the importance of family and about the Guatemalan culture. The lesson served to show the similarities and differences between our own culture and the culture of Guatemala.
How do you think it went?
I think the lesson went very well. I thought the reading of the story and the following activities took a much shorter amount of time than we had previously anticipated. The “students” seemed to be attentive and we tried our best to handle their various behaviors.
What did you learn from your students?
I learned that it was much easier than I thought it would be to be strict with the students.
What would you have done differently?
I think I would probably have reprimanded students more, but instead I ignored their behavior because I was unsure what to do in certain situations.
How could you have made the lesson even more effective?
I could have probably made the lesson more effective by responding to various students’ behaviors more often. Also, I think I need to practice reading while showing the pictures because I had trouble reading from the side.
What do you think you need to improve or do differently?
I think I need to improve on dealing with students’ behaviors because sometimes I just did not know what to do, which resulted with the student getting away with the bad behavior. Another thing that we forgot about during the lesson was when we put the word “WEAVE” on the board, so we did not utilize it as a punishment method.
