Mini Lesson Evaluation

What went well in your teaching? Based on what you learned as an instructor, what changes would you make next time?

I made sure that I went slowly and gave opportunity for any questions that “students” had. I feel like I was very clear in my explanations. She knew how to follow my directions, and printed without any problems. I made sure that I was not talking down to her.

After seeing her mini lesson, I got some great new ideas that would improve my own lesson. I want to include pictures so students that learn the same way I do will have that extra help. I would also like to use more detail in my steps. I will also need to include a few more steps in order to make it clearer.

I think printing is a valuable skill for students to have. I would hope that they would know how to do this before coming into the 5th grade. Maybe this could be a refresher or a new skill for ELLs.

LifeSavers

Based on your learning experience in the LifeSaver lesson, describe the attributes of inquiry learning.

Students may think what is going to happen, but without inquiry learning, they can only assume. I think that students truly learn when they get their hands on something physical or can relate it to something in their own lives. During our LifeSaver inquiry learning assignment, we made predictions about what we thought would happen with the LifeSavers. We then performed our tests and recorded our results. We included visuals in the form of a chart and a PowerPoint to help further our understanding of our experiment.
I believe all of the steps made it a more powerful lesson. I can more easily remember the assignment because it was reiterated in so many ways. Plus all of the visual aids were what really stuck in my mind. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy science. You get to hypothesize, then find out what the real results are.