Language Development Strategy Lesson
Reflection and Analysis The Reflection: The reflection component should make you think about your overall limpressions and feelings that you had. You also might address something that surprised you or something that made you pause.
Questions to consider in your reflection (Answer two of the following questions):
1.What aspects of your lesson were implemented differently than you planned? Why did that happen?
2.If you were going to teach this lesson to the same group of students, what would you do differently? Why? What would you do the same? Why?
3.What surprised you in your lesson?
4.Describe an instance or particular encounter that comes to mind. Why did you pick that instance? What is so perplexing about that particular moment?
5.What connections can you make to your lesson today from your coursework, the literature, and any previous lessons or experiences?
The Analysis: The analysis part addresses the lesson’s effectiveness – to what extent did the students meet the objectives stated in your lesson plan and how do you know? Make a claim about student learning and support it with evidence that you gathered from the lesson.
General questions to consider in your analysis (Answer one question):
1.To what extent did the students learn what was intended? How do you know? As part of your answer, please indicate:
a.In what ways were your teaching methods effective? How do you know?
b.In what ways were your activities effective? How do you know?
c.In what ways were the instructional materials effective?
d.How did any special considerations of accommodations affect the lesson?
2.Identify an individual or group of students who had difficulty in today’s lesson. How do you account for this performance? How will you help this (these) student(s) achieve the learning objectives?
3.Identify an individual or group of students who did especially well in this lesson today.How do you account for this performance?
4.Based on what happened in this lesson, what are the next steps? What do you plan to teach next to this class? Be sure to explain how you will use information from this evaluation in future lesson planning
