Kiana Dabay

Dr. Lee
EDCC 340
29 April 2019
Lesson Observation Analysis

Lesson Plan 2 by Jennifer Henriquez-Posada

For lesson observation, I will be analyzing Jennifer Henriquez-Posada’s lesson plans for

preschool and kindergarten classes. The first lesson plan is about primary and secondary colors

which will be supported with three instructional strategies such as journaling, hands-on learning,

and free work time. The lesson objectives are primarily focused on the meaning of primary and

secondary colors, and why the colors changes when they are mixed. However, the lesson

objectives only included what they students want to know without any indication of the expected

behavior and be able to manage to execute. The rationale is almost thoroughly explained;

however, Jennifer is missing information about developmentally appropriate practices and

explanation of the instructional approaches.

In the beginning of the lesson plan, Jennifer listed the instructional strategies that will be

used but an explanation about those strategies should be explained in the rationale section of the

lesson plan. On the other hand, both accommodation and differentiation are thoroughly

explained. Nevertheless, Jennifer did not include the differentiation strategy during the

instructional strategies. In assessment, Jennifer did not include how she will check one of the

other lesson objectives which is why the colors changed when they mixed. Lastly, the reflective

practice did not include a thorough information about the evidence that would support her
evaluation, what different approaches will she execute, and what part of the lesson is she proud

of.

As stated earlier, the instructional strategies included in the lesson plan are journaling,

hands-on learning, and free work time. All instructional strategies are clearly practiced

throughout the instructional activities, however, differentiation for every activity are not

included. The lesson initiated with an engagement activity, the class will read, write, and have

discussions; however, Jennifer did not include the book that will be used in the engagement and

the writing assignment that students will answer. For the core part of instructional activities, she

would allow students’ curiosity to spark using the materials for painting. This is a great way to

maintain student’s engagement after a writing activity. After having students’ curiosity at its

peak, she will have a read aloud that is connected to the rest of the activities which is important

especially in kindergarten class so they will see the relevancy of texts to their activities.

After the read aloud, the students will be able to paint using the primary colors to create

secondary colors which is a great activity for students to do and experience first hand of the color

changes. However, no differentiation is included. My concern is will she help the students that

needs more time or say the colors’ name in the student’s own language. The color wheel is an

important instructional activity because it will help students have fun and review the colors

effectively. While the learning stations are a great way to maintain students engage because they

will be learning and applying what they learned at different stations. The lesson wrap-up allows

the students to review what they learned which is connected to the lesson objectives, however,

one part of the lesson objectives is not applied which is why color change. Lastly, the homework

did try to include the standards, but it is lacking security of how the teacher will check whether

the students was able to execute the homework. Since the homework requires students to
communicate with their parents. My curiosity sparked on the method to assess the homework,

will she have a rubric or allow the parents to report what the students reported to them.

Lesson Plan 3 by Jennifer Henriquez-Posada

The second lesson plan is primarily aimed for preschool and kindergarten students and

focuses on colors and fruits. The lesson plan did not include any specified instructional

strategies, however, on the rationale section she briefly explained that the instruction would be

equally student and teacher centered. I believe that Jennifer should include a more specific

instructional strategy so that other instructors will be able to evaluate whether she was able to

execute the plan well. The lesson objectives included several information but was not clear of the

expected outcome and knowledge that students should be able to produce. Jennifer should

provide specific lesson objectives instead of explaining it because the lesson objectives should be

understood and seen by the students clearly. In terms of the accommodation and differentiation,

Jennifer included two different information for each category.

As stated earlier, Jennifer did not include instructional strategies for the lesson.

However, the instructional activities are primarily students and teacher centered. In terms of

engagement, Jennifer did not specifically say the writing activity that students will do. After that,

the class will do several transitional activities such as good morning song, morning message, and

review the calendar. The class will have a read aloud and the book will be used to do the activity

where students will tally mark the fruits and vegetables they like. The activity does demonstrate

an equal instruction using students and teacher centered point of view. However, there are more

instructional strategies that could be identified and one of them is using graphic organizers. The

other activity is for students to have different learning centers to produce the knowledge that they

have previously learned. The last instructional activity is for the class to visit the school garden
which is an excellent activity so that students can apply and interact with real fruits and different

colors. However, Jennifer should state whether these foods will be used to categorize or sort

different colors because it is one of the common core standards included in the lesson plan.

The assessment is thoroughly explained. However, the closure of the activity is lacking

because it included that students will do a writing activity but did not include the prompt; it was

not specific enough. The homework asks students to examine what fruits and vegetable they

have at home but did not specifically say how the students would record the information or how

will it be graded. Furthermore, Jennifer did not include how it will be used in the next class

because it only asked students to look at the fruits and vegetables they have at home. Information

like this might also be sensitive since some households does not really have enough healthy

foods at home. Lastly, the reflective practice did not answer every question but should have been

answered because it is part of the process of improving as a teacher.