In creating this lesson, I thought that my students would value learning the terms that will be on their rubric for their final uni assessment. I thought that exposing them to the words, then teaching them, discussing them, and then doing practice with them would be the most efficient way for them to learn the vocabulary.
Goal: By the end of this lesson, students will understand the literary terms associated with the rest of their unit on understanding poetry from the author’s perspective.
In my instruction, I made sure that my students did not only know the terms, but truly had a deep understanding by working with them multiple times, in multiple ways.
To reflect on my lesson, I learned that my posture and body movemenets are at times too relaxed and informal, which I did not recognize until watching the video of my lesson, and my feedback. My goal, however, was to express all the content I know and not leave too much out. My feedback says I did this well, however, I think I still could have improved in this area. I need to make sure that when teaching vocabulary, staying away from simply stating definitions is more difficult than I first thought. I tried to stray away from this but in the moment, it was difficult. However, I think that through my assessments, my students were able to learn the vocabulary. They were able to discuss the terms as a group with little prompting by the end of the lesson. I think that more interesting activities would have helped my lesson to be more engaging.
Your lesson was very engaging for your students. In the future, I wonder how you can develop more of a teacher presence as you said you would like to work on in future lessons. This is also an area that I struggle with, so it will be interesting to see how this "teacher presence" develops.
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