Strategy Lesson Reflection

Personally, I really enjoyed the strategy lesson. It was a great way to really see how a lesson plan works from start to finish and be the one who makes it. One thing that I thought went well was the example of a passage from Harry Potter that we gave the class to practice “Tweet the Text”. It was a great pop culture reference that a lot of students could relate to because they had either read the books, seen the movie or heard all about it from their obsessed friends. Another reason I think it went well was because students got to use Twitter in class and create a community online by using #LLED3530. One thing I think I would do different in the future is to do a better job of giving directions for activities. I felt Carlee and I mentioned the directions once then just expected everyone to catch on. Next time I will be sure to have the directions posted for the activity on the board and leave it up there or have pieces of paper with directions on them and pass them out to the class. This wasn’t that big of a deal while presenting to college students, but I know this would have been a bigger problem if this would have happened in a middle school classroom. An unexpected challenge that we encountered during this presentation was we forgot to pull up Twitter before we started. Luckily we were able to pull it up when we needed it but it would have been a much smoother transition if we would have already had it up and ready to go. Again, this wasn’t that big of deal while presenting to college students, but it would have been a little bit more of a problem to middle school students.

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