Reflection: Lesson Plan
Hello Fellow Bloggers,
Welcome. I am looking forward to a sharing my teaching experiences and graduate school experiences with you. To recap, I am a Certified Science teacher in Georgia. It is a joy to teach science and work with middle school students in a science classroom. Obviously, I hope my passion for science will spread to my students and they will share the same enthusiasm for learning as I do.
On the other hand, I want to reflect on this week's application. Our assignment was to use a Science Lesson Template to plan a lesson that centered around Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) strategies for diverse learners. We were given the 5 E's Strategy to assist us in this process.
The following will explain the terminology:
Engage - Hook
Explore - Experiment
Eplain - Introduce New Material
Elaborate - Real World Connections
Evaluate - Assessment
Candidly speaking, it was an extremely frustrating and overwhelming at times planning this lesson using this new strategy. I really could have used a face to face group meeting or an exemplar. This assignment would have made an excellent cooperative learning experience. Consequently, I did not feel confident that I had completed the Science Lesson Template correctly. After another colleagues, and viewing questions that were posted on Q&A I gathered I was not alone. It seemed that with all the planning I did for the lesson plan, the template and the plan just were not a match.
Time was a factor in completing this application. Time is valuable not only to a teacher, but in general. Time would be a factor trying to perform this lesson in a classroom given some classes are not an hour long. There were some parts that seemed redundant. Although, there were sections that were helpful. I can see where the historical perspectives and real-world context could be a challenge in come cases. Just like our students, on some assignments, I think we need that constant feedback and collaboration that comes from being in a group or in pairs.
Alethea,
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more about it being better to learn some of these new topics via a cooperative group. I noticed it took a very long time to complete the assignment.
I totally agree with you Alethea. I had a difficult time and felt that it would be an impossible expectation to have such a lesson plan for every lesson. I do see the need as a singular exercise to make us focus on the bits and pieces that need to be considered when designing lessons; but between parent meetings, staff meetings, student meetings, grading, training, and the myriad of other time consumers this would be grueling.
ReplyDeleteLori