Reflection Questions:
1. (Noticed Strengths) I really like using warm-ups as an opportunity for me to get attendance taken and get lessons ready to go. They are also great ways to check for understanding on previous material. In this case, I was able to find that I needed to restart my computer to get my Mimio working. It allowed time for me to figure that out and I still had the regular white board to go over the problems with students.
2. (Evidence of Learning) I think the best evidence of learning that I saw was the student who pointed out an alternative method of doing the problem that we had covered in class the week before.
3. (Learner Engagement) I feel that my students were between mostly and halfway engaged. I think the engagement started to leave after going over problem 2. Sometimes I like to "make mistakes" so that the kids find the mistakes and point them out to me.
4. (Varied Abilities) One of my IEP kids was sitting in the back row and I should be addressing those kids more often to make sure that they are involved. My high achievers are in the front on my right and in the back on my left and right. I could engage these kids a little more often as well.
5. (Role in Supporting Learning) My role was helping to remind the kids of a method for finding percent of change. I offered examples and helped them to work through the examples.
6. (Challenge) The challenge for me was keeping attention for the entirety of the warm-up. It was 11 minutes long. However, I'm not sure that I could get them going with fewer problems. It was one of those hum drum things.
7. (Observed Student Thinking) I noticed that more than one students was trying to use an entire value instead of a difference when entering information into an equation. I suppose that the issue here was getting the student to obtain the correct information to put into the formula.
8. (Instructional Routine Change) I think that I could ask for the answers to the questions first and then have students do the demonstration on the board.
Aaron --- isn't this an incredible tool for self reflection. Imagine if we used this type of video for different parts of our lesson on a fairly regular basis, along with the 'essential questions' to help us dig deep.
ReplyDeleteJob well done, and next week we'll do some peer observations.
Strengths-You did a nice job of giving students enough time to work through the questions. I liked how you stressed how there was more then one way to answer the problems.
DeleteStudents' learning-You could see students had learned because they were referencing previous days of instruction. Students were also writing down the information you wrote on the board.
Engagement- What is your goal for 100% engagement? How are you going to get students who understand the material engaged during instruction?
Varied abilities-did not observe
Supporting learning-You gave students amble amount of time to answer the warm up question. You also questioned them in their process of answering the question not just accepting the answer.
Challenge-Checking for understanding for all students. Seemed like students yelled out the answer which makes it easy for some students to disappear. How do you plan to eliminate the random questions being asked by the student up front?
Instructional routine-Overall good job. How long did you plan the warm up to be? I would recommend calling on students opposed to having students yell out the answer. This could motivate all students to write down or at least try the warm up because they may be called on at anytime.
By the way how many students do you have. It seems like an awesome class size.
That class has nine currently (down from ten). I lost one, he's now my TA that period. The advantage to teaching at a high school of 65!
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