Lesson Self- Assessment for ED 315 Name: Ashley Komorowski Lesson topic: Distributive property review game Date:

10/18/12 School/grade level/ number of students: West Side Academy II/ 6th grade/ 23 students Name of Cooperating Teacher: Mrs. Richmond Planning and preparation: Describe how your plan provided opportunities for active engagement. How did you provide for the needs of diverse learners? Did you adjust your plan in any way? Describe how and why if you did. *All of the students got to participate in the game. Even if it was not their turn they were to still work out the problems so they knew they understood them. There were some easier problems and more difficult problems. Since the students got to work in groups they got to collaborate with one another to come up with one answer. I did not adjust my plan in anyway. I wanted them to work in groups so group members could be another resource besides me. Classroom environment: Evaluate the ways in which your encouraged student participation. How did you elicit student responses? How did you engage them in responding to you and each other? Evaluate your plan for individual, small group and/or whole class work. How effective were these different organizational techniques for keeping students involved in your lesson? *I told the students that if they worked together as a team then they would get an extra point just by working together. I wanted them to decide as a group what they thought the answer was, so it was not just one person answering every question. As the students were trying to figure out the problems I was walking around trying to help each group without directly giving them the answers. There was no individual work in my lesson it was all group based. Overall the students worked very well in their groups and they stayed on task for the most park. There were times where I had to stop the game because they were getting wild, but they managed to get back on task. Instruction: Evaluate your choices of instructional strategies. Did they have the effect you intended? Were the needs of all learners met? What changes would you make if you repeated this lesson? *I think the instructional strategy that I chose was good to keep all of the students interested. I figure reviewing the material this way was a lot better than giving them problem after problem. They would lose focus and they would not learn anything that way. If I would have to make one change to the game I would review each type of problem before I even started the game because the students took a really long time to figure out the first problem, but as soon as they figured the first one out they understood how to do the rest of them.

Assessment: What assessment processes did you plan and how did they work? What did you learn from listening to student responses, examining their work or listening to their interactions? How well did your assessment procedures inform you about student attainment of your lessons objectives? *During this lesson I assessed the students based on how they were working in their groups and what input they put towards their group. I walked around and listened to see if they were on task and talking about the problems and not talking about personal issues. If they were not talking about the problems I would make sure to tell them to stay on task. Professional responsibilities: What did you learn from your cooperating teachers feedback on this lesson? How will you apply it to future lessons? *I learned that it is important to show multiple ways for doing problems. She showed one way of doing the distributive property and the next day I showed the students a different way. Therefore, the students could decide what way they wanted to do the problems. I will make sure to show multiple ways of doing problem in my future lessons. Not all students learn by doing it the same way. Some students need to be shown different ways so they can decide the best way they understand it. Reflection: What did you learn about student learning and assessing from this lesson? How will it affect your planning for future teaching? *I learned that students are always going to be a little hyper when playing games like this, but it is my responsibility to set guidelines and rules before the game even starts so students know exactly what to expect. Even though I did not have a formal assessment for this lesson I knew what students really understood the material and what students were still struggling.

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