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.