Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Phase 2 of time lesson

Instructional Decisions/Teaching (InTask Standard # 9): 
A lot went well in this lesson, the students were engaged the entire time and they learned the material very well. With the online game they actually went farther than we did in the actual lesson. This was one of the things that didn’t go as well, the game introduced so terms that we hadn’t gone over in the lesson because they weren’t in the first grade standards. Other than this slight detail the alignment to the standards was maintained very well. The modification I made during the lesson was ending the online game at the level before it started introducing the terms we had not discussed.
Mechanics:
The technologies that I used was an online clock manipulative at the beginning of the lesson to introduce the main concepts and then I used an online game about telling time to use as a mini assessment. The technologies were used by myself and by my students. My lesson was in the correct time frame because I slowed down my teaching and gave my students more time to practice. We also used more time at the end of the lesson to review the terms.
What did you learn from designing and teaching this lesson and how will you use this in the creation of future lessons/learning activities.

I learned that time can be a really difficult concept to explain to younger student but that if you explain it correctly they will start to understand it. One thing I will change is using more time at the beginning to really go over the important concepts. I will also give more time for the lesson and more time for individual and group practice.

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