This past week in my placement was a super busy. There was no school Monday, then Thursday was observation, and Friday was a Seahawks day.
From the classes that we have had before in the program showed me how much work goes into lesson planning. So it gave me a good idea about how long it would take me to write out one for my first observation. I did an observation in math, a lesson on classifying. Over all it went really well, it was at the end of a three day lesson. The students had been introduced to the topic, then spent two days working with different objects and how we could sort them. Then on the last day they had to take their shapes and sort them into different groups.
During the lesson I used many talk moves that we have learned with Allison. Even though my teacher does not use these all the time. The students did a really good job about working with me. It was a really great way for me to see if the students had understood the lesson or not. I put them into different groups. The higher level groups had to sort them into 8 groups, middle had 4 groups, and lower students had two groups.
The great part was the kids really worked well together and really helped each other. They were able to bounce ideas off each other, and learn from one another. It was also great when the low students wanted a challenge and wanted to sort the shapes into four groups (when they only had to do two).
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