Lesson Plan 1 Reflection

I really enjoyed our lesson strategy, but I think we should’ve begun our lesson using a different standard for this particular strategy. The point of the strategy is to have our students apply prior knowledge to discuss what the upcoming lesson will be about, but if we are assuming our students don’t know about these concepts, then they hardly have any prior knowledge to guess what’s happening in the picture.

After looking over our classmates’ glows and grows report, I realized there were a few things we need to change for future presentations. A commonly written grow was about our use of time. We had quite a bit of dead time while we waited for our classmates to finish the exercises, and I think we just needed to practice running through the lesson a few more times to get a better understanding of our time management. One of our classmates (pretending to not understand what a cell was) noted that the mitochondria looked like a jelly-bean, and we didn’t take that opportunity to build off of her observation. Next time, we will take these seemingly silly observations and incorporate them into our lesson plan to help the students remember the concepts based on their own, initial observations.

For me personally I need to come more prepared for my future presentations. I walked into class 1 minute late thinking my group was presenting at the end of class, but my group members were waiting for me to present. I didn’t have time to put my phone on silent, and it buzzed the entire time I was presenting which distracted me significantly. I am also just easily distracted; I need to not let people’s activity on our google doc distract me while I present.
(WC: 292)