Elementary Education 324 Teaching Reflection

  Reflection on Lesson WHAT? What happened? What went well? What was an area of weakness? Which objectives were met?  What is the evidence? Give specifics from your formative assessment data. Which students did not meet objectives?  Which students exceeded objectives?  Why? This lesson introduces students to core civics concepts within the New York context through a structured and engaging approach. Beginning with a clear agenda and behavioral expectations, students were introduced to key vocabulary like "political process" and "civic participation" using a visual word wall. The lesson progresses with the creation of a civics anchor chart and an interactive read-aloud, emphasizing active reading strategies. Students then applied their learning through a mock election and by creating civic engagement signs, focusing on a specific issue. Finally, students reflected on the day's lesson by journaling about a significant historical event and its relevance to New Yor...

  WHAT? What happened? What went well? What was an area of weakness? Which objectives were met?  What is the evidence? Give specifics from your formative assessment data. Which students did not meet objectives?  Which students exceeded objectives?  Why? The students learned about past important historical events that had happened in NY we had selected 11 total events to go over on a timeline. Each student created a timeline of the 11 events we had learned. The students were able to understand the events of the timeline in order by date. In their journals they were asked to recall one historical event and date it as well as explain its importance. They were each able todo so with out any difficulties. The students appeared to have weakness a little bit in the area of cause and effect.  SO WHAT? What was learned from this experience? Evidence of teacher candidate learning The students enjoy doing a hands on activity each lesson this time they really enjoyed creat...

  WHAT? What happened? What went well? What was an area of weakness? Which objectives were met?  What is the evidence? Give specifics from your formative assessment data. Which students did not meet objectives?  Which students exceeded objectives?  Why? We began our lesson with an ice breaker introducing ourselves and our lesson and topic of NY. We then dove into explain our vocab word wall where we had student identify what a geography is. After vocabulary we introduced four different types of maps and there purposes. Population map, road map, climate map, and purpose maps were the 4 we were introducing. After we completed our map anchor charts we had the students look at different maps and tell us which map was which giving us its definition. From there we went on to our 4 Ps, Prior knowledge, purpose, predict and preview before reading  Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty by Chana Stiefel. After we read the story...