Unit Plan

Lesson Reflection Form

Name of Lesson: Descriptive
Setting
Lesson #: 3

Date: November 17th, 2016

After teaching the lesson, analyze student performance and your

teaching
by responding to the following questions.**
To what extent did the students achieve the outcomes you
intended?
List specific EVIDENCE/DATA that provides information about student
learning.
Based off of the students assessment, I believe they successfully reached the
objective that was intended to be met in the lesson. They all spent the time
in their authentic setting to use their senses to describe where they were.
Everyone successfully did this and will be able to use this practice to then
put it into their own writing. The little time they received to continue with
their own writing it already reflected their practice with setting.
Which of your instructional strategies were most effective in helping
your students learn? Explain how it was effective.
I believe that the initiation to the lesson is what was very effective in helping
the students learn. Contrary to prior lessons, I did not give them too many
examples or step by step directions. I really just had them go out and sit in
the setting for them to be able to use their senses to describe their
surroundings. This was obvious in their organizers that they benefited from
being able to go out and use their inquiry skills.
How did you provide instruction to accommodate student
needs/differentiation?
In order to provide instruction to accommodate students needs, I was a
scribe for a few students while they created their graphic organizer. Also, to
assist students I provided on the back of their organizer, a list of descriptive
words that apply to smell, sight, touch and sound. This supported their
creation of the description of the setting on the playground.
What have you learned from this lesson that will affect your
planning for the next or future lessons in the unit?
Identify any changes/adjustments you made during the lesson.
I have learned from this lesson that inquiry based learning excites students
and taking them to an authentic place for a lesson is also very beneficial for
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their learning. In future lessons I will strive to make it more authentic for the
students to promote engagement. Also, once change that I made during the
lesson was the amount of time I had the students spend outside doing the
activity. Rather than spending half of the block doing their writing, I let them
take their time with their setting organizer outdoors. I felt that this was much
more beneficial for them rather than rushing them to hurry and get inside to
begin their own stories. Also, at the end instead of having them pair up and
guess each others setting, I only picked a few and read them aloud to the
class for them to guess. This helped them so that they would not know
whose it was so they wouldnt guess off of where they remember their
friends were out on the play ground.
**Taken from CT State Department of Education-CCT Rubric for Effective
Teaching

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