Lesson Reflection

Overall I am mostly satisfied in how the lesson went. Together Michelle and I worked hard and made a lot of preparations prior to the day of our lesson. I think this showed through during the presentation. I agree with all of the suggestions written on our observation forms. I think the most important change would have been to warn students about the thinness of the newspaper. During student’s work time I believe they would have been less frustrated if they had been given warning. During the demonstration Michelle should have spent more time showing students what they could do with the pastels (blending and building colors upon each other). Maybe both of us could have shown the students various techniques. There could have been more improvements during clean up time. You’re right about having students do more rather then the teachers doing the majority of clean up. For next time I will have to come up with a better method of cleaning up. This experience has been very helpful. I understand that the class is limited with time but it would have been more helpful if we could have taught a lesson plan alone rather then in pairs. As time goes on and as I spend more time in classrooms I think I will start feeling more and more comfortable while leading lesson plans.




I meant to include this earlier but here is the peer-evaluation Michelle and I had students fill out after the completion of our lesson at Beacon High School. The answers we received were all positive!

Project/Teacher Evaluation

Michelle Brand and Lauren Hutton

Please honestly answer all of the questions with as much information as possible. It will be really

helpful to know everyone's feedback about our project for future lessons along with student

teaching. Feel free to write on the back for additional comments. Thanks!

1. Overall what are your opinions about the project? What didn't you like about it? What did you

like about it? Did you learn something new?

2. Do you think the way we instructed the class was successful? What worked? What should have

been different?

3. If you had to rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 how well do you think you did on this project?




Please explain your answer.