Reflection 4: Making Our Own Lesson Plan

Cre’Shawn Owens

6/17/2013

        When Mrs. Cooper told us that we were doing a lesson, I thought that I was going to do a lesson by myself. Then she told us that she already had our groups made up. So, I was in a group with Destiny and Keianna. I knew for sure that it wasn’t going to be complicated to come up with a lesson because, we were all very creative thinkers. Then she told us they that we can choose and make up any lesson plan, just be creative. They didn’t tell us anything specific to do; they just gave us a Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan.

       

Everyone started to come up with ideas for our lesson. At first we were going to do hair braiding, but then we figured out that everyone is not going to be able to do it. So we came up with the idea that we should do modeling and strutting. We made sure everyone agreed to have modeling as the Lesson Plan. Then we went outside of the classroom to make sure everyone knew how to strut. While we were out there practicing we came to the conclusion that each one of us should do a different strut. So we had a Male Strut, which was exampled by Destiny. Then we had a Classy Strut, which was exampled by Keianna. Lastly, the Ratchet Strut on what not to do, which was created by myself Cre’Shawn.

I think that we had a good lesson plan, but when it was time to present it, everything changed. The reason everything changed because, we had to deal with the whole class being disruptive and we barely had time to present our lesson. That really irritated me because, I know for sure every class that you teach is not going to be perfect, but it’s not going to always be that disruptive and disrespectful towards the teacher. Usually there are always like a group of three that is rude and out of control. I think  we had a good lesson, but if we had more power and control over the classroom, we could have had a  better presentation.

Getting everything done on time was our problem; we jumped from Bell Work to Modeling from that to Checking for understanding. I think what we could have did better was making sure we had put thought into the grade level. We had picked seniors, but then we found out that seniors are not going cooperate really because, they really don’t need the credit to graduate and they are going to be focusing on graduating. That’s usually the problem with Elective classes. If a student feel that they don’t need a class they’re not going to cooperate with the teacher. To solve the problems that we had while teaching, was to make the students calmer ; we could have turned off the lights and open one of the blinds.