Sophie Zidek April 8, 2014

Lesson Plan Reflection

Point of view
What evidence do you have that students mastered or did not master the lesson objective?
Based on your evaluation of their work, how many students mastered the lesson objective? The students and I created an anchor chart based upon the knowledge the students gained during the guided practice. The cooperating teacher does not collect student work until the end of a 2 week period. Therefor, students independent work was not able to be collected. However, the students showed mastery of the topic as we went over the book and anchor chart. This lesson was taught over a two day period as two mini lessons. Because, I was unable to collect data, I would not be able to accurately tell how many students showed mastery. However, I believe that 3/4 of the class showed mastery as we created the anchor chart through their use of detail and referencing to the book to show point of view differences in the story.

What did you students learn as a result of your teaching? Was that your intention?
Students learned that based upon who is telling a story, the meaning of the story changes. The voices in the park book was a great way to show this. It was my intention for them to gain this information through the lesson delivery. I know students understood that we should compare and contrast points of view. As I delivered the lessons, I scaffolded children by using Venn diagrams that were created as a class. The Venn diagrams compared and contrasted how

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the different narrators gave the story different meaning. The children successfully helped to fill out the Venn diagrams during the mini lesson.

Name at least 1 aspect of the lesson that was successful. What caused it to be successful?
How did you contribute to this success? I believe that 1 aspect of the lesson that was successful would be the use of the anchor chart in the classroom. This was successful because the anchor chart was developed by the students and showed their understanding after brief scaffolding. I contributed to this success through the implementation of Venn Diagrams and questions that asked students to reference the book when answering.

Name at least 1 aspect of the lesson that was less successful. What caused it to be less
successful? How did you contribute to this? An aspect of this lesson that could be considered less successful would be classroom management. The lesson was taught over a period of two days. The first day students were less than respectful. There was off task talking that went unnoticed by myself. When noticed, the off task talking was not successfully redirected.

What changes might make this lesson more successful? Why might these changes help
improve the activity? If I were to teach this lesson again, I would give more partner time for the students to discuss the points of view that they saw from the book. I would also have students remain at their desks instead of having carpet time when discussing the book. The students tended to get rowdy when placed on the carpet.

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