PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (Teacher Reflection)

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Use Appendix A as a guide to complete the reflection
APPENDIX A.

IV. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Teacher Reflection

Teacher Reflection (InTASC 9): Effective educators reflect on their teaching and on
their students’ learning in order to best facilitate student learning and foster their
own professional growth. This section of your lesson is to be completed AFTER
teaching the lesson and is meant to help you gain insight into your own practice.
Discuss the following prompts individually and include specific examples for each:
 State whether each of the outcomes for the lesson were met. Provide
evidence from the lesson that supports your claims.
 Describe how you will use data from the assessment portion of your lesson to
inform future lessons. For example, describe what strategies you will use if a
significant portion of the students did not do as well as expected in one or
more of the assessments.
 Describe the portions/aspects of the lesson that worked well and why.
 Describe the portions/aspects of the lesson that did not go as planned and why.
 Discuss what you would do differently next time to better support your
students’ learning.

At the baseline level, the outcomes of the lesson were met. Students could correctly explain the C.I.A.
as evidenced from the bellwork, and from the assessment they were able to identify the differences
in Stalin and Khrushchev’s ruling styles. Students did well on the first “level” of the assessment, but
there were struggles on the later levels with unclear connections, and hard to understand political
cartoons. Going forward in planning future lessons of a similar nature, explaining more in-depth what
is expected and showing examples would help give students a better visual representation of what is
expected.

For what worked well, it was the video lecture. It was easy to record and gather all the information
for, and the students seemed to enjoy it. However, despite doing the lecture remotely, there were
still moments where I struggled to present. Although it was better than previous lectures, ensuring
that I am rehearsing (or at the very least going over) what I want to say in the lecture would be in my
best interests as a presenter.

As for what I would do differently for next time, I have already discussed a few in the previous
statements. Elaborating further on instructions so that students have clearer expectations and will do
higher quality work is one of them. The other would be to better rehearse/look over my notes so I
would not have awkward timing, and not trip over/forget what I had planned on saying.