Comprehensive Reflection

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Micro-Lesson #2

Lesson Plan Subject: ELA

Grade: 1st Grade

Topic of Study: Story Elements

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I. Rationale & II. Overview Reflections: Assessing Prior Knowledge and Planning Instructions: 

• What do the students need to know prior to the lesson?
• The students need to know how to appropriately use Youtube and Get Epic!. The students also need to know how to use their writer's notebooks. 
• How will prior knowledge and experience be assessed? 
• I will ask the students questions about appropriately using YouTube and Get Epic!. I will also ask the student to show me their writer's notebook and have a discussion about it.
• How will you use this information in the planning process?
• Depending on the information gathered from the discussion with the student, I will determine the time needed when using youtube and Get Epic!. 
• When will the lesson be taught in the course of the school year? Why?
• The lesson will be taught during the time when students are working on story writing; this will help the student understand different basic parts of a story which will reinforce when learning about different parts of a story. 

 III. Implementation Reflection: Designing Instructions: 

• How do the instructional methods align with what you know about best practices (think about your methods classes)?
• I chose to guide my lesson with the I do, we do, you do. There is a lot of modeling, and students can be as creative as they want. 
• How are you engaging students in creative and higher-order thinking? 
• The students will work in groups which will help them think and work together on the assignment. The students get to pick their group's book on Get Epic! to work on the assignment, and they also choose to either write or draw (or both) on the poster paper as long as they meet the requirements. 

 IV. Assessment Reflection: Planning Assessment:

• How does the assessment demonstrate that the students have been successful in learning the content?
• By meeting the evidence of mastery, which is "Students can verbally describe the story's elements in small groups and in writing."
• How does the assessment demonstrate that the individual student needs were met? 
• When the students work together, they learn together; therefore, working on the poster board is practice before working on their own to write their own stories. Each student will write their own story by filling out a graphic organizer to help them write their story. 

V. Materials & Resources Reflection: 

• How does your lesson meet ISTE Standards?
• ISTE Standards for Educators (The technology standards you should meet as a teacher) 
• By making this lesson, I got to practice my lesson planning skills and how to integrate technology into a lesson to make it more interactive and meaningful. I used the information gathered from the student to create a lesson that meets the student's needs and uses technology appropriately. Giving me the opportunity to show my leadership skills by teaching the lesson. Before the lesson plan, I explained to the student how to appropriately use Youtube and Get Epic! and how to safely use a computer to navigate in the internet. 

• ISTE Standards for Students (The technology standards you should help your future students meet)
• The students listened and agreed on how to appropriately use a computer and the different websites to work on the lesson and meet the lesson objective. The students safely used the computer and the tools borrowed appropriately. The students explored Get Epic! to find a story they wanted to work with. The students collaborated with each other to find a story and create a graphic organizer that gave other students an explanation of different parts of their story.