Lesson Plan Reflection

Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught
Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow

Intern Name: Jamie Stone
Lesson Title (Subject/Topic): Pocahontas
Date of Lesson Taught: May 26, 2021
Cooperating Teacher & School: Mrs. Lawver at Cooke Elementary School
Grade: 1st
Time of Day: 9:30am - 10:00am
1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss, or
edit your lesson? To create this lesson I started out by talking to my cooperating teacher and
asking what topic they will be learning about during the time I will be teaching my lesson
plan. She then talked about how they were learning about Pocahontas and she even sent me
a huge pdf document all about Jamestown that helped me figure out what I was supposed to
be talking about and teaching.
2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction? The SOLs and Objectives
helped me focus my instruction because I was clearly able to understand what the students
needed to learn and what I needed to focus on in my lesson plan and make sure they knew.
Having the SOLs and Objectives just helped me to make sure that the students were learning
and grasping the essential information that they needed to know.
3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated? Almost everything changed a
little bit than what I expected, but the one part of the instructional plan that worked as I
anticipated was the reading at the beginning of the lesson. We had a couple of technical
issues, but once we got the slideshow to work, the first part of the lesson plan went pretty
much how I thought it would. We went through a passage about Pocahontas and I stopped
on mostly all the slides and asked the students what was important information that we
needed to highlight. That part of the lesson went pretty well and worked as I anticipated.
4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began? Once I began there were a
few adjustments that I needed to make such as figuring out how to operate the board as I
was presenting. As I was reading through my passage I had to make a few adjustments to get
the slide to work. Another adjustment that I had to make was with the fill in the blank
worksheet. The worksheet instructions said to cut out the words and glue them into the
blank, but I thought it might just be easier to have them write in the words. But, when I was
passing them out the students voiced that they would rather cut them out, so I had to make
an adjustment in my instructions.
5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed? Like I mentioned in the question above, I
made an adjustment to have the students cut the words out and glue them into the blank
instead of just writing them. So, I did not anticipate the materials that ended up being used.
But, it was a quick and easy change in telling them what materials to take out. I also wish I
would have printed out a copy of the book I was reading so each student could have their
own copy and we could highlight together. If I had done that, they could have kept all that
important information.
6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what will
the future assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?) I think the assessment
that I chose to use was pretty effective. It assessed their knowledge very well and I didn’t
want it to be graded or there to be too much pressure as they had just started learning the
material that day. So, doing the assessment as a class I think was very effective and beneficial
for them. I could also see that they had grasped the material in the questions that some
students were asking and how other students were able to answer their peers' questions.
7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you have for
the success of the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!) I think the
lesson was a pretty good success. The evidence I have for the success of the lesson was
mostly from the assessment. I was a little nervous that during the assessment that they were
not going to know the answers, but so many students knew and were eager to answer the
questions with confidence. While the assessment was a really big indicator to me that the
lesson was a success, I could also see that they learned some new things in the questions
they were asking at the end of the lesson. They were excited to continue learning about this
topic and some of the other students were able to answer their peers' questions, which was
really exciting for me.
8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to its success? The time spent
preparing for my lesson dramatically contributed to its success. I thoroughly practiced on my
own and also in front of people like my mom and my friends. So, I was confident in what I
was teaching and knew I would be able to answer any questions the students had. I was also
effectively able to make sure they understood and noticed the important information in the
passage that we read that would reappear in their activity and assessment. Because I
prepared for my lesson, I was able to know what they needed to know and made sure that as
we read through the passage and continued with the lesson, we highlighted the important
information.
9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything differently?
If so, what? Yes, I would absolutely do things differently. First off, I would've tried harder to
come in early and make sure that I could get my slideshow onto the board and I knew how to
work the board. But, the main thing that I would have done differently would be just my
overall classroom management. Throughout the lesson I was so focused on what I was doing
and not messing up that I felt like I didn’t even look out into the classroom and notice what
the students were doing. There were a few students that were off task when I was reading
the passage and I didn’t even notice until I looked back at the video. I also learned so many
attention grabbers during my internship that I wish I would have remembered to use. Overall,
there were just so many tools and things like that that I learned from my cooperating teacher
that I wish I would have used.
10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson? Overall, I’m just really glad I got to do a
lesson plan from scratch and was able to teach it in front of a class that I had grown a
relationship with over the past few weeks. I learned a lot from doing this lesson plan and
there were so many aspects that I wish I could improve upon and have a redo. But, I’m glad I
was able to have this learning experience now instead of later in my career. So, while there
were definitely things that I wish I had done differently and I regret not doing, I think it was
an overall great experience and success and the students learned a lot.

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