Me Young Hong #1 reflection

After teaching each lesson, write a Book Club Blog Posting discussing the following:

·         What students learned and which students struggled with the lesson. 

·         What are alternate reads of your students’ performance or products?

·         What did you learn about your students’ literacy practices that extend beyond your objectives?

·         When and how will you re-teach the material to students who need additional support?

·         If you were to teach this same lesson again, what would you do differently and how do you think the changes would improve students’ learning?

What did you learn so far about implementing your ‘core practice’ and what do you need to do to continue your professional learning?

My lesson went pretty well; it seemed like everyone learned and no one struggled from our first lesson since it was very straight forward lesson. Students were just asked to listen and follow the steps I provided and made a turkey using cookies. They learned about How To genre and how to follow steps; writing was not involved at all and some of reading time was done as a whole group. Hence, everyone was clear with the directions and could follow all the steps. Also, since I demonstrated each step right before they do it, they could follow/ copy my demonstration.

I wrote down the title of the lesson, How to Make a Turkey using Cookies, materials and steps that they can read and follow the steps as they look at my demonstrations. It introduced which steps go inside the How to Genre and how they need to be listed in sequence.

I learned and was actually surprised to see that modeling or demonstration helps them to understand the reading and directions a lot. They could read much better and more accurate after I modeled each step.

There will be no re-teaching for this lesson since it was very clear lesson and there was no student who need additional support struggled. This lesson was done as an introduction of How To genre to students, therefore, it would not affect students even if we do not re-teach them.

I would make steps for each group to look at, hence, I would increase amount of reading time. I thought that we focused too much on making turkeys using cookies and steps I provide, we did not really get to read all the steps; most of the steps was done verbally. Therefore, if I were to teach this same lesson again, I would like to go over all the important steps/ things that go inside How to books with more details; for example, I would emphasize steps, first, next and last, as I read.

Since the lesson was to introduce what my unit plan is going to be about and how we will focus on, I would like to involve more writing and reading for future lessons for us to have professional learning; I would like to observe how students understands the concept of How to books and use their knowledge when making their own How to books..