Hi, My name is Karen and I am a student at Rhode Island College. I am majoring in Secondary education with a concentration in English and a minor in Portuguese. I love being a vegetarian, I also enjoy drawing and reading Shakespeare. My passion is working with children and I currently work for a non-profit after school program, :).
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Microteaching Number two
Indirect lesson plan - My lesson was about using pictures to indirectly learn how to use first, second and third person.
I really liked the pictures you had us analyze to jump start a creative writing workshop. I wasn't expecting the pictures to come from a book about immigration, which was thought provoking for me. I also clearly understood what was expected throughout the session and thought it was great that you were doing the tasks with us. I have never had a teacher share their results, but I think doing so would help the students further see what you wanted and also help you connect with your students more. My only suggestion is that there needed to be more of a closure incorporating the main point of the lesson. I felt it ended a little too abruptly. Although, I was able to see the answer to the guiding question after the discussion. Overall, I thought you had a solid lesson that would have lent itself to more conversation if our group was larger. I still enjoyed it because your questions got my creative juices flowing. I have never used a picture from a book as a prompt and I now want to think of more outside the box writing prompts. Nice job!
Hi Karen, I really loved your lesson, right from the "Is a picture worth a thousand words?" beginning. It was an engaging question to start with, and the pictures that you had us use for our writing prompts were unusual and intriguing. The progression of the assignment was really effective at illustrating the differences between narrative point-of-view. I also really liked how you did the activity with us; it was a great way to model the expectations of the lesson. The fact that the pictures came from a non-fiction book was a nice reveal to leave until after we'd finished the assignment, and it generated some interesting discussion towards the end of the lesson. Although I really enjoyed the lesson, I could see how it might be a little intimidating for students that aren't as comfortable writing fiction and reading aloud. I think that your choice to do the assignment with us and read out your own work was a great way to make the task less intimidating. In an actual classroom setting it might also be easier to do in small groups. I also agree with Kendra that there could have been more of gradual closure to the lesson. In summary, this was a satisfying, engaging lesson, and I wish I had an opportunity to use it myself!
I really liked the pictures you had us analyze to jump start a creative writing workshop. I wasn't expecting the pictures to come from a book about immigration, which was thought provoking for me. I also clearly understood what was expected throughout the session and thought it was great that you were doing the tasks with us. I have never had a teacher share their results, but I think doing so would help the students further see what you wanted and also help you connect with your students more.
ReplyDeleteMy only suggestion is that there needed to be more of a closure incorporating the main point of the lesson. I felt it ended a little too abruptly. Although, I was able to see the answer to the guiding question after the discussion.
Overall, I thought you had a solid lesson that would have lent itself to more conversation if our group was larger. I still enjoyed it because your questions got my creative juices flowing. I have never used a picture from a book as a prompt and I now want to think of more outside the box writing prompts. Nice job!
Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteI really loved your lesson, right from the "Is a picture worth a thousand words?" beginning. It was an engaging question to start with, and the pictures that you had us use for our writing prompts were unusual and intriguing. The progression of the assignment was really effective at illustrating the differences between narrative point-of-view. I also really liked how you did the activity with us; it was a great way to model the expectations of the lesson. The fact that the pictures came from a non-fiction book was a nice reveal to leave until after we'd finished the assignment, and it generated some interesting discussion towards the end of the lesson.
Although I really enjoyed the lesson, I could see how it might be a little intimidating for students that aren't as comfortable writing fiction and reading aloud. I think that your choice to do the assignment with us and read out your own work was a great way to make the task less intimidating. In an actual classroom setting it might also be easier to do in small groups. I also agree with Kendra that there could have been more of gradual closure to the lesson.
In summary, this was a satisfying, engaging lesson, and I wish I had an opportunity to use it myself!