Lesson Self- Assessment for ED 315 Name: Yazmin Duran Lesson topic: Social Studies Date: 11-20-13 School/grade

level/ number of students: Milwaukee College Prep/ 5th grade/25 students Name of Cooperating Teacher: Sarah Borgstrom 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. This lesson was a vocabulary review game in which students had the opportunity to showcase what they know about learned vocabulary through bingo. Students were actively engaged as they had to listen to the definitions that I was providing them and finding the vocabulary term on their bingo cards. In order to do this activity students had to be attentively listening and focused on their bingo cards. I provided to the needs of diverse learners by saying the definition more than once and providing examples when appropriate. If I could adjust this plan I would tell students that I was only going to repeat the definition twice this way they would have to listen attentively. Classroom environment: Evaluate the ways in which you 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? Throughout the lesson I was enthusiastic and very positive. I made sure to command students attention and projected my voice so that I could be heard clearly. Since this was a review game students were encouraged to play in order to win and be able to have their favorite chant be said. When a student would win bingo they were asked a few questions about the definitions of the words and a few times as a class I had students all together give me the definitions. In this lesson the students were playing individually but they were involved in encouraging each other and cheering on when a scholar won. 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 believe that my instructional strategies were effective. I made sure to clearly explain the expectations and rules. I also provided the students with a visual example of what it was they had to do. In the lesson I was walking around the entire time holding students accountable for their work and showing my enthusiasm. If I were to repeat this lesson I would do the same things I did and maybe have more vocabulary and provide more examples.

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? For this lesson I was just looking to see which students were actually participating and trying to take note of the ones that I saw making clear connections between the vocabulary and the definitions. From seeing student engagement and responses I was able to infer that most of them knew the definitions to the vocabulary and enjoyed playing the review game. My assessment informed me about student acquisition of vocabulary. Professional responsibilities: What did you learn from your cooperating teachers feedback on this lesson? How will you apply it to future lessons? In this lesson my Cooperating teacher provided me with only glows. This gave me a sense of accomplishment. I believe that throughout the semester I have been applying her feedback to my lesson planning and instructional strategies. I have also worked hard on time management and addressing behaviors. I know that in future lessons I will have to keep in mind that changes might have to be made to the lesson and that its ok not to fit everything in as long as the students are really engaged and learning the material. I will also keep working on being firm and setting clear expectations. Reflection: What did you learn about student learning and assessing from this lesson? How will it affect your planning for future teaching? Student assessing is definitely something that needs to be in the front of a teachers mind since at times there is a need for on the spot teaching and adoptions need to be made to lessons. I think that there are definitely many ways in which to assess and depending on the lesson and the objectives the teacher need to choose the one that will help them gather the most accurate information about student learning. I also think that the main priority is to teach the students and show them that you care about their questions and answers. Its important to assess but most of the time quick little reminders and notes are more beneficial than copying down a script of students conversations. In future planning I will keep my assessments simple but direct to the main things Im looking to assess.

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