November 21, 2013
Amber's Lesson
Big Idea - Lost & Found
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A Brief Overview
Reflections
6
Amber did a great job addressing the class. She kept the class motivated by always asking questions and even had the class watch a video clip. The lesson itself was clearly structured around the age group, which created a great learning environment.
7
Throughout the lesson, Amber was able to keep the lesson student-oriented, in that the students were constantly adding to the lesson. She created many opportunities for the students to answer questions and give feedback. The questions were engaging and open-ended, allowing them to elaborate on their answers. Amber also got the class to relate the concepts to the world around them by asking the class to find examples of three-dimensional objects in the classroom. Not only was this was a question anyone would be able to answer, it gave the class a physical, visual example to connect the concept to. Relating the concepts to the real world around them and having the class actually find examples engaged the students on many levels.
8
As Amber introduced the artist, she made references to his personal life and allowed the class to get to know more about the artist as a person. We were able to see the artist on video and hear him talk about his work. It was valuable to actually see the artist instead of just hearing his name. I personally believe it is very easy to forget names and for children it would be harder, so for the class to see the artist and hear him talk, the information given would be more likely to stay. It was clear that Amber was revisiting the big idea throughout the lesson, yet I think she should have put more emphasis on the word choice. Perhaps she could have cupped her eyes every time she used the word find or found and put her hand over her eyes as if she was searching for something when she said the word lost or lose. I think she did a great job revisiting the big idea, however I do not believe there was enough stress put in to the words, which kindergarteners would not have picked up on.
9
I wish Amber would have mentioned the fact that even the artist's techniques could be related to the big idea. When the page is closed, the pop-up is hidden, or lost, and when the page is opened, the pop-up is revealed, or found. Amber did do a great job revisiting her big idea and continued to relate back to it until the end of the lesson. She had the class "find" three-dimensional examples in the classroom. Even her closing message was, "to make sure we do not lose any of the materials, find all the scrap pieces and put them in the garbage and put the oil pastels back in the cups". It was a great way to wrap up the lesson and link the whole lesson back to the big idea.
Amber did a great job addressing the class. She kept the class motivated by always asking questions and even had the class watch a video clip. The lesson itself was clearly structured around the age group, which created a great learning environment.
7
Throughout the lesson, Amber was able to keep the lesson student-oriented, in that the students were constantly adding to the lesson. She created many opportunities for the students to answer questions and give feedback. The questions were engaging and open-ended, allowing them to elaborate on their answers. Amber also got the class to relate the concepts to the world around them by asking the class to find examples of three-dimensional objects in the classroom. Not only was this was a question anyone would be able to answer, it gave the class a physical, visual example to connect the concept to. Relating the concepts to the real world around them and having the class actually find examples engaged the students on many levels.
8
As Amber introduced the artist, she made references to his personal life and allowed the class to get to know more about the artist as a person. We were able to see the artist on video and hear him talk about his work. It was valuable to actually see the artist instead of just hearing his name. I personally believe it is very easy to forget names and for children it would be harder, so for the class to see the artist and hear him talk, the information given would be more likely to stay. It was clear that Amber was revisiting the big idea throughout the lesson, yet I think she should have put more emphasis on the word choice. Perhaps she could have cupped her eyes every time she used the word find or found and put her hand over her eyes as if she was searching for something when she said the word lost or lose. I think she did a great job revisiting the big idea, however I do not believe there was enough stress put in to the words, which kindergarteners would not have picked up on.
9
I wish Amber would have mentioned the fact that even the artist's techniques could be related to the big idea. When the page is closed, the pop-up is hidden, or lost, and when the page is opened, the pop-up is revealed, or found. Amber did do a great job revisiting her big idea and continued to relate back to it until the end of the lesson. She had the class "find" three-dimensional examples in the classroom. Even her closing message was, "to make sure we do not lose any of the materials, find all the scrap pieces and put them in the garbage and put the oil pastels back in the cups". It was a great way to wrap up the lesson and link the whole lesson back to the big idea.