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2. How effective were your instructional strategies? What changes would you
make in your instructional approaches if you taught this lesson again? Why?
I believe my instructional strategies were effective. If done again, I would have the
students bring a clipboard to the carpet so that they could write on their sticky notes
during the buddy/bully chart activity. If I had more time, I wouldve modelled the writing
activity a little better so students could understand my expectations.
4. Evaluate the level of student engagement in your lesson. (Consider how you presented
the content/skills, the activities and assignments for students, grouping of students, and structure and
pacing of the lesson.)
Students were highly engaged during the classroom buddy pledge, but there were
some off task behavior during the buddy/bully chart and the writing activity.
6. To what extent were your assessment strategies effective? What changes would
you make in your assessment approach if you taught this lesson again? Why?
I used informal assessments to monitor student understanding of the topics. The
buddy/bully chart was an assessment method that I could use to directly see if
students understood the difference between buddy behavior and bullying behavior. If I
could change my assessment approach, I would include an exit ticket or maybe a
Kahoot for students to engage with to dive deeper into the difference between buddy
and bullying behaviors.
9. Did you make modifications to your lesson plan during the lesson? If so, what
were they and what motivated these changes?
Right before the Buddy/Bully chart, I decided to state a disclaimer to the students that
they should be respectful during the whole lesson and that they should not call out
specific students. I knew that the students all felt a certain way about a specific
student, and I did not want that student to be singled out. During the Buddy/Bully chart
activity, I decided to review the sticky notes before adding them to the chart instead of
letting students stick them on themselves in case some students included some
unkind statements. Also, right before the lesson, my mentor teacher told me to refer to
the narrative writing as realistic fiction writing because the students were not familiar
with narratives. She also had a realistic fiction anchor chart in the room that I used to
refer to. I also decided to refer to the anti-bully pledge as the buddy pledge instead
to focus on a positive classroom climate.