Last "Important" Lesson

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Tuesday March 20, 2012

In this lesson I focused on teaching how to complete the worksheet I had created. At the beginning of the lesson, I reviewed what "important" was and asked volunteers to tell me something that was important to them. After we reviewed what "important" means, I brought my Important Poster out and had the students read it with me. I used the poster as guided practice so the students would be able to do the worksheet during independent practice. During this lesson, what went well included giving my students an opportunity to discuss what was important to them, writing various fruits on the board, introducing the Important Poster, calling on students to share ideas for what should go on the poster, and having the students do a rough draft of their worksheet. What did not go well included giving students a chance to draft their ideas before copying them on the final draft, and not giving students enough ideas of different vocabulary words to use on their sheet. Next time I teach this I will let students to actually come up to the board and write their suggestions on the Important Poster instead of just writing what they tell me, I will write all the fruit I can think of on a poster beforehand to save time, I will ask students what their fruit can be: can it taste good, can it smell good, is it big or small, it is smooth, it is sweet, it is sour, it is juicy, is it slimy?
After teaching this lesson, I decided I wasn't going to do my TPA on this learning segment because I wanted to focus on something that would have a deeper impact on the students.