Strategy Lesson Reflection: KWL

This experience of teaching the class about the KWL was overall beneficial to the process of becoming more comfortable in front of students. I believe the lesson went well, but it definitely was a learning experience. I felt as if Grace and I were prepared in terms of having our materials ready, having in depth knowledge of the KWL, and working together to co-teach the lesson. I believe that our activity really allowed our classmates to see how a KWL can be used not only when reading a text in a content area, but through text in any media outlet. The reason we did this was because majority of the class has been exposed to a KWL whether in their own schooling or through their time in education courses. One thing that I would do differently is make the Powerpoint with less words and maybe add some more time for discussion between each slide. This would allow students to engage more in the content of the lesson. An unexpected challenge we had was that we did not really have a set time of how long we were going to let our classmates fill out each category of the KWL. As we were standing up there, we had to pick a time on the spot. We said we would give them a minute, but it seemed like most students were done way before a minute in one portion, but needed more time for another category. I think with that, we should have had a timer on the screen to allow students to see their time. In the future, I want to be sure for activities that need a time limit that there is a timer that everyone can see. This will help students gauge their time when working. 

WC: 297