I was able to connect to
a lot of different points they talked about while writing lesson plans and by
evaluating your lessons. Brown talked about how it is important to evaluate the
effectiveness of your lessons. It is always important to evaluate yourself, the
students, and the actual lesson after performing a lesson with your class
because you want to decide whether or not you can use it again. We have been
taught over and over again in our education classes about how important it is
to evaluate yourself after because if the students ended up not liking or, did
not understand, or you found it difficult to teach, then there is no use in
using that lesson plan again. It is especially important with second language
learners because they are already learning something difficult, so a lesson
they are learning for the day does not need to be complicated or confusing to
make it even more difficult for them. Although you want to challenge them, you
do not want to make lessons anymore complex or confusing for them than it
already is.
Something that is important in all lesson plans is the
objective(s). The objectives are what the students are going to get out of the
lesson being taught. It is important to make the objectives obtainable to each
student. You want to be sure that your objective(s) are very clear to you and
your students. An example of an objective is, “students will be able to count
out loud to the number 10, three out of the five times they practice”. You want
to be precise about what you expect from the students to learn after doing the
lesson you planned.
Kumar talked about when a teacher evaluates the
effectiveness of their teaching, they can make sense of what happens in their
classroom. Teachers need to take control of their classroom and learn how to
prepare and evaluate their lessons correctly. Sometimes it may be really easy
for a teacher to put a quick lesson together for their students, but it takes a
devoted teacher to look back after all their lessons and think about whether it
was effective or not. They need to continuously develop new and improved
lessons that work for their individual students. Although a lesson worked one
year with your set of students, the next year you may have completely different
students and they may learn differently than your students from the year before.
Although it is important to look at the specific lessons
and decide whether they are effective or not, it is also really important to
look at the bigger picture; evaluate your lessons and decide whether they are
embedded in the overall goals of the curriculum. It’s important to make your
lessons appropriate for your class, students, and individual children, but it
is also important and necessary to embed it into the overall goal of the
curriculum.
There are very important aspects that go into making
lessons and teaching your students a certain way. You cannot continuously use
the same lessons year after year because students are different and you have to
teach each individual as the unique person they are.
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