Reflection

Jon Schleifer Erick Hanna

Reflection


 * A. Describe how your lesson went **

We feel that overall our lesson went pretty well. Based on the feedback that we received from exit tickets, TLIC grades, Professor Eliot and our video we feel that our lesson was effective in teaching the basic strategies for the use of instructional choices as outlined in the reading. We also feel that we did a good job of making the lesson interesting, engaging and fun. As Professor Eliot observed we were able to utilize multiple co-teaching strategies and we did a good job of sticking to our predetermined roles.

One area we can improve on is our use of sarcasm throughout the lesson. It was our intent to make the lesson fun so we used as much humor as possible. We are both pretty sarcastic people so much of the humor tended to lean in that direction. Professor Eliot commented that sarcasm can lead to a negative classroom atmosphere so we will have to be cautious in the future to use more positive forms of humor.


 * B. What did you learn about yourselves as teachers and co-teachers **

We learned that co-teaching has many advantages over solo teaching. The co-teaching format allowed us to have a lot of fun brainstorming creative ideas for the lesson. We were able to feed off each others ideas. We were also able to utilize a divide and conquer strategy for the more mundane and labor intensive parts of the lesson planning. This strategy allowed us to focus more in-depth on certain aspects of the lesson. We also learned that co-teaching takes a LOT of preparation. It seemed like every new idea we had for the lesson came with a new set of challenges to be overcome.


 * C. Bulleted list of data you gathered and your written analysis, including relevant video clips **

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 * D. Adjustments you would make if you were teaching this again to your partner school colleagues **

We think that we would leave the lesson mostly the way it is because we feel that it was successful over all. Some areas we could improve on are: eliminating or reducing the use of sarcasm and working in some additional time for discussion at the end of the lesson. These changes would allow us to create a more positive environment and allow us to better asses weather or not the students have learned what we intended them to learn.