- Reflection

Food chains. Mariam Mohammed

Lesson (unit/page) Student teacher

MST Nashika School Al Tomouh

Class 2E Date 4-Nov-2019

Select
What standards or LOs were being addressed in the lesson?
Students will be able to know that animals are part of a food chain.

How did you cater for learners with special needs, and for differentiation?
For differentiation I gave each group different activity, for example, mastered I gave them cups
and pictures. And they glue pictures on the cups. After that, they organized the food chain by
putting the cups above each other. For development students used animals’ pictures and straws,
they create their food chain with these pictures. Students did a food chain by using the pictures
and glue. For emergent, students make series food chain by using papers picture. and they
coloured the pictures and glue it to make a series.

How did you use positive reinforcement? Methods? For what?

I use positive reinforcement by said “good job” for the students that participate in the classroom.
To let the others, participate also.

How did you sequence or scaffold activities so that they built gradually towards the learning
objectives?
Each activity was linked to the lesson. I sat with my MST to ask her to help me on the activates.
Overall aim and context of the lesson (that is, describe the lesson’s place in the unit of work.
What did students need to know before today’s LOs were addressed? What topic comes next and
how did today’s lesson prepare students for that?)
The lesson was taken in the classroom, the students were sitting at their tables. At first, I
reviewed the lesson they took last week about “the animal’s habitat, and what the need to
live”. and then I asked them questions about the lesson that they take before. After that, I started
the lesson by asked the students several question in general. Then I opened the PPT. I prepared
the lesson with MST, sat down with her, she gave me some advice and helped me with activities
and how the lesson started.

Describe
Who is the lesson for?
The lesson was for grade 2E

Where did the lesson take place?

The lesson take place in the classroom.

What were you aiming to achieve in your lesson?

My goal was to get the information out correctly for the students.

What experiences did you provide to the students to help them to achieve your aims for them?
I explained to them at first in English and Arabic to understand, and when I gave them the
activities, I asked them and helped them to get the information to them.
Analyze
Were students excited, always occupied, and remained on task during the lesson?
The students were enthusiastic, and in the activities they were busy. Also, in the beginning when
I was asking them several questions in general.

Why do you think the students responded the way that they did?
Because I gave them hands on activities. And because the lesson was about something they know
and not something new for them.

How well did your teaching relate to the students’ prior understanding?
I linked the lesson to the lesson that they take last week about the animal’s habitat, and what the
need to live.

Appraise

Explain the nature of the experience from the students’ perspective.

They were excited because the activities was hands on.

Did your lesson meet your teaching goals? Use your students’ performance on the end of lesson
assessment as support (Give proof in your portfolio)
My lesson meets my teaching goals that was my time management. But I forget something that I
should do it in the modeling was the competition.

Transform

How might you enhance student learning of this lesson in the future?
In the future I will review many times before my lesson to not forget something. Also, I will use
some strategy to let the students quiet.

What are the implications for your professional practice of helping students to enhance their
learning in this particular way? (i.e. what skill will you have to develop or learn? What
professional development will you have to undertake?)
The skills that I must develop that to make the students quiet by using strategy. And to make sure
that to not forget something that I written in my lesson plan.