Lesson Self- Assessment for ED 215 Name: Melissa Mills Lesson Topic: Poetry Literacy Strategy: Annotating Date:

11/11/2 11 Sc!ool/gra"e le#el/ n$m%er of st$"ents: &ran'lin (ig! Sc!ool/ 11 t! g/ 2) st$"ents Name of *ooperating Teac!er: +e#in Nettes!eim Planning an" preparation: Explain and give a rationale for the objectives/strategies/and assessments that you choose for this lesson. Were you able to teach the lesson in the allotted time? Why or why not? How did you use the cooperating teachers expertise in planning this lesson? choose my objectives according to the common core standards but also connected them to the class theme. choose annotation because thought it would help students analy!e the poetry and would be especially helpful for poems that have symbolism and metaphorical meaning. was able to teach the lesson in the allotted amount of time and although the students were to read and annotate the poems for homewor"# most did not understand the poems and had to spend the majority of class time pic"ing apart each poem with the class. $y cooperating teacher did not give me much advice on the lesson and it was the first poetry lesson of the year for the students. *lassroom en#ironment: How did you encourage student participation? What strategies did you use to manage and monitor student behavior? Evaluate your interactions with the students and their interactions with each other. allowed the students to volunteer to answer %uestions and when saw the same hands going up# used a name chart to randomly choose students. f a student did not "now an answer or was not sure# as"ed probing %uestions to get them thin"ing and able to answer the %uestion. should have wal"ed around the classroom more and not spend too much time with one group. definitely have to wor" on my classroom management s"ills and need to be aware of what all students are doing. thin" my interactions with the students were professional and the students interactions within their groups did not wor" out well because had way too many "ids in one group. ,nstr$ction: Explain how you taught this lesson to meet your objectives. Evaluate your implementation of your plan. &id it have the effect you intended? Explain what you found most difficult in teaching this lesson. What changes would you ma"e if you repeated this lesson? Why?

thin"# and the students agreed# that going over all ' poems in depth as a class was helpful in understanding the meaning of the poems. (y my as"ing %uestions# the students were able to connect the poems to their class theme. found it difficult for the students to find metaphors in the poems and the groups they were in were not very effective# even with the wor"sheets made for them. would change the group si!e in this lesson and have a proceeding lesson about metaphor and other literary elements in poetry. would also change up the poems to something the students would li"e better and be able to relate to# possibly song lyrics. would also wor" on my classroom management s"ills. Assessment: )onsider student learning as you reflect on your teaching of this lesson. How do you "now if the students learned what you taught them? How well did your assessment connect to your lessons objectives? *o follow+up this lesson# what would you teach next? *hrough discussion# "now which students learned what taught them and which were fully there. should have "ept a tally on students who were participating and answering %uestions. could have had each student do a written assessment on one of the poems to help me further assess their learning. thin" my assessment connected to the objectives well because it helped the students develop their analytical s"ills and verbally ma"e connections to the class theme# but could have been better with an additional written assessment. would teach a lesson ma"ing these same connections to popular songs the students would "now. Professional responsi%ilities: Explain how you will apply what you learned from the feedbac" you received on this lesson to teaching future lessons. will definitely focus on my classroom management when teaching and ma"e rounds during group wor". will also continue to study my content area so have better bac"ground "nowledge. -eflection: What did you learn about teaching from this experience? What insights do you have about the connection between assessment and student learning? How will it affect your planning for future teaching? Explain how this lesson demonstrates your growth in ,-E Wisconsin *eaching .tandard and ,-E /lverno Education /bility. have learned that need to be more "nowledgeable in my content area as well as more aware of what is going on in my classroom. have learned that assessment should reflect your objectives in my lesson plan and should be able to assess each students. n future lessons# will have a written assessment until am more familiar with teaching and with my students. thin" this demonstrates my growth in teaching standard number one. *he students eventually understood the poems but had a hard time doing that because they could not relate to them. *his got me thin"ing about other ways could teach these concepts so the students could connect to them. was thin"ing that would choose more modern poems they would li"e or teach the lesson

using popular song lyrics that have metaphorical meaning. thin" this demonstrates teacher standard number one because have enthusiasm for my discipline and can see a connection in English and everyday life which will help my students ma"e that connection as well. also thin" this lesson has helped me to develop my integrative interactions s"ills by showing interest in students ideas# concerns# experiences# and interests. am ta"ing all of these ideas into consideration to better my lessons with the students and my relationship with them as well .