Supervisor Observation 3. Post Reflection Blog (Final Internship).

mmaloni
Apr 13, 2018
2 min read

Reflection:

When looking back over my lesson there were some aspects that were implemented differently than I planned. I was supposed to teach this lesson to a small group but there was a teacher that had to go to a meeting, so my small group lesson turned into a whole group lesson. In my video of my lesson at one minute and 59 seconds I had the students copy numbers I wrote on the board in their notebooks. I was originally going to have my students use white boards and makers when writing the problems and solving them but with a whole group there wasn’t enough for all the students. One teaching practice claim that I want to state is that it’s important to be flexible and ready for change in your lesson because things might come up that can change how you thought your lesson was going to go and it’s important to go with it, so it doesn’t affect the students.

When doing my lesson something that surprised me is that a lot of the students struggled with finding the number it could have been before rounding it. During part two of my video at seven minutes, I gave the students a problem that was already rounded and they had to figure out the previous number if it was rounded to the nearest hundreds place. It took the students more time to try to figure out this type of problem. I had to even state to them that there could be more than one correct answer. One student’s answer was jumping from 5,000 to 3,000 and he knew that when rounding a number that it wouldn’t be that much of a jump. A teaching claim that I want to state here is that it’s important for students to struggle occasionally to figure out problems because it helps them remember later how to solve them. Also, difficult problems make students use their strategies that they know when trying to solve them.

Analysis:

There wasn’t just a group of students that did well in today’s lesson. I thought that all my students did especially well in this lesson today. The students were staying engaged and answering all the questions I was asking them. Even when the lesson got a little harder the students were still trying to work out the problems and once we went over those harder problems as a class I noticed they were getting the content. In part three of my video at 19 seconds after going over a harder problem it was starting to click with the students what they had to do when solving for them. The last teaching claim that I want to state is that even if the students struggle with a certain part of lesson doesn’t mean that they will walk away not knowing how to do it. It just took some of my students extra time with the harder problems, but their demanding work paid off because at the end of the lesson I had them do an exit ticket and all the students did excellent on it.

Student work: