AAWC Lesson Reflection 3

Lesson	Science (Phases of the Moon)	Your Name	Hafssa Saleh Al Harrasi
MST MCT	Miss. Cara Miss. Kesha	School	Shamma Bint Mohammed School
Class	4	Date	November 10, 2015

One aspect that I feel I did very well:

One thing that I feel I did very well is giving the students a simple activity at the end of the lesson to make sure that everybody has understood the 8 phases of the moon lesson. I gave each group 3 minutes to discuss and identify/draw 2 different phases of the moon, and then they have check their answers together with the whole class, and correct the wrong answers at the end. I think that this activity worked well because it’s helped students to check their work and see if they have any wrong information to fix it, they also had a chance to refresh their information about the phases of the moon and put them all together. I believe that this is a good strategy that the teachers can use to review their lessons, and I know that everybody will enjoy doing it.    

One aspect that require attention:

I believe that classroom management is one from the very important things in the class, it’s requires attention and help the teachers in teaching. When I was giving the lesson closing today while we were working in groups, I noticed that the students get bored very easily, so they just get out from the lesson domain and talk about something else, they are discussing and talking about every single thing that happen in the class, so they lose attention. So, I tried to use the attention signal “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.” Students responded appropriately and got back on task for a time, but then went back to the same behavior. This was my problem for today, I couldn’t engage the students and make them attentive all the time. If I had a chance to present this lesson one more time, or teach in the future for the next lesson, I will try to use award table points to student groups to keep them engaged in addition to using the attention getting signals, and I’ll search to know what I have to do exactly and what’s the steps I have to follow, and I hope it will work well.    

Personal focus for next lesson:

1-  Implementing table group points to keep students focused.

2-  Slow down speech rate.

AAWC Lesson Reflection 2

Lesson	Multiply by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s	Your Name	Hafssa Saleh Al Harrasi
MST MCT	Miss. Cara Miss. Kesha	School	Shamma Bint Mohammed School
Class	4	Date	November 9, 2015

In my presentation for today, I was teaching the activity part of the lesson, so I did 4 activities depends on the levels of the class, which are: Pre-emerging level, emerging level, develop level and excelling level. I put the 4 activities one on each group of the class, students have to finish each activity in few minutes so they can move to do the other one, and move around the groups to finish all the 4 activities in 25 minutes. The lesson went pretty good, at the end of the day I felt very proud of myself, because I achieved my goal to make all the students use different ways/activities/strategies to solve the multiply equations. One thing I feel I did really good today is the activity that I gave to the emerging students in class: The idea of the activity was to draw their hands on a paper and write the numbers from 1 to 12 inside the drawing hand (3 or less on each finger), on the other paper they have to write the x5, x10 schedule, and then I gave them an equation to solve, and show them the steps of how to solve it by using these papers: Put their left hand finger on the first number they wrote on the hand drawing, and the right hand finger on the first number they wrote on x5 or x10 paper, and they have to move them together by counting it loud and moving on the numbers depends on the equation that they have to solve, until they reach the answer. I think this activity will help them a lot on multiply, if they practice the x5 and x10 schedule and save it on their mind and use their hands to count, they will use the same strategy that I gave them but without using papers, and thats will help them to solve in the future. When I was moving around the groups to check their work or to see if someone have question, I noticed that the low students were very slow on drawing their hands, writing the numbers and the multiply schedule. They were wasting time doing things not that important, and they couldn’t complete the activity because of this. So, I was thinking that if I gave them printed papers and they just have to use them and solve, it will be much easier for them without wasting time. If I had a chance to give this lesson again, I will get the 2 papers ready for them, and the only thing they have to do is solving questions using these papers, and thus they will have more time to practice, solve and think.