Assignment Three: Analysis of the Instructional Process

In the last couple of posts I have posted a couple samples of student's work, both of a high quality and of low quality. The unit that I posted on my last few blogs, met the standards because the students were to recognize symbols that uniquely represented our nation. In addition, this unit contributed to the goals because the students were able to identify a fact about it. They were also able to to take these symbols and recognize them on other things. For example, the students were able to recognize the Bald Eagle on the back of the quarter.
However, when I was teaching the lessons some of my expectations were: the students would be able to identify a fact, the student would write their sentence neatly. The students needed to make sure that their sentences started with a capital letter and ended in a period. The parts that were successful in the lessons for this unit is that the students were able to identify a fact that they liked about the symbol that they were learning, and they were able to color the picture so that it correctly represented the symbol. On the other hand if I were to these lessons again, I think that I would of found some other ways to make the lessons more fun.
Even though the students were able to identify to a fact, I found that by reading a book and having the facts already done on an overhead really helped my students. By reading the book the students were to look at the pictures and get an idea of what the symbol was like and the students always enjoy a good book. What I thought that was most effective for my students was having all of the facts up on the board. I put the facts up on the overhead for the students and then I passed out their books and they were able to get started right away. By them being able to get started right away, it gave me the opportunity to walk around and help students get started or to help them. On the other, since I have provided an analysis of a student's high quality work and a student's low quality of work, I would have to say that for the student that did not produce quality work, I went to him to and told him that he is not to bubble his letters, and that he has a good start and to keep going. For this student I just kept providing feedback of encouragement, in hopes of the student getting his work done.
So you may be wondering how I take such lessons and assess the students knowledge on the topics that were presented? Well, in the two lesson plans that I have provided, I talk about how I will look at the students writing and be able to tell them if they can go ahead and color. Then at the end of the lesson, the students will hand me their book and I will look at their sentences and their picture and determine if they followed directions and if they wrote a fact that corresponded to the symbol that we were learning. Finally, this lesson showed student achievement because they will knew the significant symbols and they were able to tell me something about it.