Analysis+2

1. What did the students learn from your lesson? How do you know they learned from your lesson? The students learned what a complex sentence is and how to create one. 2. What did you think about or consider when planning the lesson? (Be specific.) I thought about how boring and ineffective traditional grammar is, and how I can improve using technology. I therefore thought that If I use the traditional grammar approach framing the sentence, but frame them on power point slides I might be able to create more interest in the subject. 3. What do you think was the most effective part of the lesson? Why? My most effective part of the presentation was my attention getter, because the students were talking to me and Ms. Simons for days about that piece of art work. 4. How closely did you follow your lesson plan? If you deviated from the lesson plan, what decisions did you make during the lesson and why? I followed my script pretty much to the T. 5. Were the activities/materials/visuals/aids appropriate? Why? Why not? Yes, I the materials were appropriate for an 11th-grader. 6. What part or parts of your plan would you consider changing before teaching this lesson again? I would change my final assessment where the students do complex sentence combination for a whole paragraph, and make it a smaller paragraph. I should have known there was going to be a problem when I had a hard time fitting the paragraph on one slide. 7. What do you see as your teaching strengths? I was able to role with punches that come with teaching high school grammar. The students are really going to challenge you, and you have be prepared with an answer. If they ask a question, and at the time you don't know the answer is an introductory adverd phrase wrtten in past perfect tell them. They appreciate the honesty. 8. Identify a goal you would like to have your field-based supervisor assist you in achieving. One goal would be to get more experience teaching grammar, because studying and being familiar with the subject only gets you so far. Being in front of the students, trying to teach the nuts and bolts of English grammar is where I need practice.
 * Analysis of Instructional Planning and Impact on Learning**