Instructions : Reflection On Teaching And Teaching Questions

What effect did your teaching strategies have in terms of promoting student learning and keeping your students meaningfully engaged? (APS 5.A–C)

Write a concise summary (approximately 1’200 words) to demonstrate your understanding of your role and responsibilities as a teacher in relation to:

What were the learning outcomes for the lesson? How did the learning outcomes meet the needs of individual students?

The learning outcomes are important. There has to be a reason on why something is being taught, and how it will be useful to the students future. Throughout the paper, I’m going to give you an example of a lesson plan I

Engaging students in the classroom can be a difficult task. Understanding the process of how students learn can help a teacher adapt the lesson to meet the needs of all students. I will encounter students that are not intrinsically motivated so I will need to find different ways to motivate each and every student. Understanding how my students learn can provide me with insights as to how to help each student learn which will minimize classroom management problems.

In part 2, I will provide a critical reflection on my own teaching practice during recent placement by making detailed connections to an appended lesson plan.

Describe the re-engagement lesson you designed to develop each focus student’s mathematical knowledge in relation to the targeted learning objective/goal. Your description should include

2. Reflect on the information presented in this week’s lesson and provide an insightful response to each question writing no more than two paragraphs.

c) What teaching approach did you take in your session? How well did it work? What evidence do

Describe any appropriate and/or inappropriate practices throughout your lesson. Describe the practice time provided for your students during the lesson.

As a future teacher, you will be self-reflecting on your teaching and the activity that you had the class complete as part of the lessons. By reflecting on what you presented in class, you will learn how to and what to modify in future lessons which will help you become a stronger teacher (Ed-TPA). Please answer the following prompts (honestly) with a minimum of 4 sentences for each section.

Keeping students engaged and on task can be, at times, the most difficult part of being a teacher. You have to come up with new ways to engage them and keep them focused on learning, especially at the end of the day when all they can think about is going home.

My observations has taught me the importance of engaging students. I am now able to recognize when a student is not engaged. They seem distracted and are not paying attention to what the teacher is saying. Whereas an engaged student is alert, discussing the material, and asking questions

determining if teaching was effective and to determine how appropriate modifications and adaptations can be made to improve future instruction (Dreyer, 2014:7).

These methods are more entertaining, making the students to be more excited and engaged in the class more actively. (6)