Tuesday, November 18, 2008

New Insights and Their Implications

In the creation of Lesson Study 1 a lot of time and thought went into the format of this lesson. At first, this long drawn out procedure was an experience that was hard to see the outcome and hard to see if it could even be used later on in our profession as a teacher. Once we actually presented our lesson to the classroom we saw an outcome that wasn't quite expected and definately a learning experience. We had many expectations coming into the lesson from the students and that could have been where we made a mistake. If we were to think of every aspect of each student in creating this lesson we maybe could have seen different reactions to it. Also, once we have our first year teaching job, we are going to be making many lesson plans from scratch. Yeah, we may not be able to have a group of people collaborating to put a lesson together, but after one teaches the lesson for the first time one can reflect on how it went and note changes that could happen to better the lesson. After years of doing this many well thought out lessons will be filed and for the different types of classes one has there will be at this point different options for lessons on that particular subject. So, out of this experience reflection after a lesson is taught and observed how students take in the lesson will be incorporated in my career as a teacher.

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