Lesson Plan 1 Reflection

WHAT? 

Coming into our first lesson students were introduced to the country Ukraine and the geographical features that it holds. We went through a quick overview of the topic and read through two informational books that correlated with geography. Students were then introduced to the concept of Never Eat Soggy Waffles, which helped teach students their directions. Students loved how interactive our lesson was we made sure to shy away from long and boring worksheets. In terms of what we can grow on as TC being more clear with our directions when implementing a new activity, this will help with organiztional  skills and help students understand tasks better. Within the lesson students grasped all of our objectives we were able ti have great group discussions as well as small group work that allowed students to really grasp our objectives.  The objective "G 1 (3-4) –1 :a.accurately using maps to identify locations.b. identifying relationships between time, space, and distance.c. organizing information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context (e.g., the school is to the east of the store; the house is northeast of the mountains)" students we're able to see the population differences within the country based upon where water was and how in earlier times this was a important piece when choosing where to settle. One of our students exceeded expectations and helped describe to other students which was great to see peers helping one another.

SO WHAT?

During this experience collorabtive teaching was exhibited greatly. Myself and my TC partner worked together very well as I was explaining things to one group of students my partner walked round and kept students on task and helped other groups. Teaching is a profession that benefits from helping one another within the community throughout this lesson I was able to see the benefits of working together with another TC and how students can also benefit from successful teacher collorboration. We used great scaffolding as well to help lay out the information presented to students regarding geography, are goal was to not over whelm students but allow them to absorb and retain the information.

NOW WHAT?

I will use the information that was learned from lesson 1 such as working with fellow teachers and using other educators to help gain constructive critsim to help me grow. Taking pointers from other educators will only help me grow and add tools to my tool box. In the future I plan to incorporate clearer directions and use technology more within my lesson. This use of technology allows the students to hear and watch a different viewpoint rather than just my voice, which may describe information differently and more effective to students. Technology is also something that is huge in the society we live in so showing students that we can use it and learn can prove to be beneficial in later lessons.