- Reflection

animals and plants Mariam Mohammed

Lesson (unit/page) Student teacher
live in the desert.

MST Nashika School Al Tomouh

Class 2A Date 9-oct-2019

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What standards or LOs were being addressed in the lesson?
Students will able to lean which animals and plants live in the desert.

How did you cater for learners with special needs, and for differentiation?
For differentiation I gave each group different activity, for example, mastered students have box
and they open it from one side. They create their desert box by using “shoes box” and they use
real materials such as animals and plants. Also, they cut some pictures and organize their boxes in
their own.

For developed students have colour and papers. Each student draws a plants and animals that live
in the desert. They did “desert area”

For emergent, each student has colour papers and pictures. Students do a brochure by using the
colour papers. And they write the title, their name and their grade in the first page. After that,
they glue the pictures with writing the vocab for each picture.

How did you use positive reinforcement? Methods? For what?

I use positive reinforcement by said “good job” for the students that participate in the classroom.
To let the others, participate also.

How did you sequence or scaffold activities so that they built gradually towards the learning
objectives?
Each activity was linked to the lesson. I sat with my MST to ask her to help me on the activates.
Overall aim and context of the lesson (that is, describe the lesson’s place in the unit of work.
What did students need to know before today’s LOs were addressed? What topic comes next and
how did today’s lesson prepare students for that?)

The lesson was taken in the classroom, the students were sitting in the carpet. At first, I reviewed
the lesson they took last week about “the desert”. and then I asked them questions about the
lesson that they take before. After that, I started the lesson by asked the students several question
in general. Then I opened the PPT. I prepared the lesson with MST, sat down with her, she gave
me some advice and helped me with activities and how the lesson started.

Describe
Who is the lesson for?
The lesson was for grade 2A

Where did the lesson take place?

The lesson take place in the classroom.

What were you aiming to achieve in your lesson?

My goal was to get the information out correctly for the students.

What experiences did you provide to the students to help them to achieve your aims for them?
I explained to them at first in English and Arabic to understand, and when I gave them the
activities, I asked them and helped them to get the information to them.
Analyze
Were students excited, always occupied, and remained on task during the lesson?
The students were enthusiastic, and in the activities they were busy. Also, in the beginning when
I was asking them several questions in general.

Why do you think the students responded the way that they did?
Because I gave them hands on activities. And because the lesson was about something they know
and not something new for them.
How well did your teaching relate to the students’ prior understanding?
I linked the lesson to the lesson that they take last lesson about the desert.

Appraise

Explain the nature of the experience from the students’ perspective.

They were excited because the activities were hands on.

Did your lesson meet your teaching goals? Use your students’ performance on the end of lesson
assessment as support (Give proof in your portfolio)
My lesson meets my teaching goals that was behaviorism. The students were good and quit.

Transform

How might you enhance student learning of this lesson in the future?
In the future, I will use ClassDojo to put points for the students that they are good.

What are the implications for your professional practice of helping students to enhance their
learning in this particular way? (i.e. what skill will you have to develop or learn? What
professional development will you have to undertake?)
The skills that I must develop that change my activities. That instead the brochure I will do
different one.