Reflection

Wendy Seitz December 3, 2010

Language Focused Mini-Lesson Reflection Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

I was nervous before I even got up in front of my peers. All of their mini lessons were wonderful and, well, even though mine was well-planned and well put together it was a lot to compare to. Before I even got started I realized that the technology switch I planned to use was a possible tripping point that would cost be valuable time, so I chose not to use the PowerPoint I had prepared. A few moments after I got started I realized I was in trouble. I tried so hard not to read off the scripted plan I had written that I totally forgot the actual instructional part that I was planning to use. I did some of it, but not in the nicely planned, smooth way that I had hoped. Since my lesson used previous knowledge of the students (especially since Nada had just done a presentation on adjectives) so the missing pieces were pretty well filled it, but I know that if I were to do the lesson in an actual class with real students I would have to do more. The rest of the lesson went pretty well. The “students” participated well and seemed to enjoy the activities I had planned. One comment that I got was that I should have asked before putting a student example of a paragraph up for the class to see. I understand that I should have done that and was really just acting the moment and not really thinking. This was a good learning experience, especially about changing things on the fly. I had to rethink things when I realized I had forgotten a major point on the lesson and didn’t have time to go back and fix it properly. While this video isn’t something I plan to use for my electronic portfolio I have thought about re-taping it with both the corrections I realized I needed to make for myself and those that my fellow classmates pointed out. I do think, though, that elements from this mini-lesson would be good to use in a real class some day.