This past week, we all did our lesson plan presentations and were split into 2 groups to make it slightly easier on us. I found transitioning to be 1 of the most difficult parts of my presentation. I noticed I had a lot of yes or no based questions which is not something we were told to do. Although, I think I did very good on the whole singing the song and teaching it to the students part. If I were given a second chance, I would have figured out how to get my students to answer without it being a yes or no question and be able to flow very well from 1 part of my lesson to another.
Transitioning was what I had the most trouble with since I first started practicing my lesson plan. First, I didn't know how teach two different things such as rhythmic pattern and rhythm together so I had to get help on that. Second, adding questions in between the songs was difficult as well, I didn't know where or when to say them so I needed to get help on that as well. Finally, the hardest part was going from the end of the lesson to the closure, I could not figure out how to involve everyone after teaching them how to do the song. Thanks to Ms. Wang though, even though I wasn't perfect, I was able to improve so much due to her help and advice.
I noticed after my lesson plan was over, that I had too many yes or no questions. Even though I was teaching 1st graders, I should not have assumed they'd be able to know everything by themselves and would have gotten no where fast. For example, when I asked the question, "How does a dog shake his master's hand with both paws," they most likely either would not know how to do that, or the children would do it all in different ways than the one I wanted to demonstrate so that would have turned out bad as well. Next, when I asked who knew how to spell or say BINGO's name, 1st grader's attention spans aren't as good as when they get older, even though some kids may know, some kids might not, so if I called on one of the kids that did not know, being put on the spot might embarrass them so much and get them upset which I would not want to do either. This is basically what I felt was the thing I did the worst on in my lesson plan.
I feel I did do well on the whole teaching BINGO song to my students and felt they may of had fun doing that. When I was singing BINGO then teaching them the rhythmic pattern by swaying left and right with "our paws," they had fun and were able to not get bored from singing this song. Also, I kept them active by having them clap when they spelled out B-I-N-G-O. In the very end when I included my students in the song, I feel was also a good way to keep them interested and have fun with this song. This is what I felt I did good on in this lesson plan.
If I were given a second chance, I would have made sure I asked my questions in a different way than a yes or no type of answer and fix my transitions as well. Instead of saying, who knows how a dogs sounds, I'd say 3 or 4 different animal noises and the students should be able to answer the question more easily. Second. for the way the dog shakes their masters hands, I would demonstrate a few different possibilities and the kids should be able to pick out which 1 makes the most sense. Finally, for transitioning, if I was given more time to think about it, I may be able to think of a clever way to go from 1 point to the next, I was very nervous for doing this for my first time so my thoughts went all over the place, but next time should be a little easier. This is what I would have done differently in my lesson plan.
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