Language Arts Day Two

REFLECTION & REVISION (This part is to be included in your daily reflections after teaching the lesson. How did I feel about my lesson today? If I feel successful, what did I see the students saying and doing that made me feel that way? What changes to tomorrow’s lesson need to be made as a result of today’s class):

     Today went really well, I could actually feel the learning. In all three groups we discussed what morals are. We went through the definition and then we talked about the moral of each story they are reading. The first activity I did was to copy down the definition. This I learned takes students a long time. I think, if I were to do this again, I would have the definition already written down for them. The reasoning for this is because this is not really a higher order thinking, it is more of a recalling aspect. Plus, the students were able to give plenty of examples of morals, but they could never get the exact definition. This is where drill and kill comes into play, and I can see why teachers use it. As a teacher, you want the students to learn the content, but you want them to get the right answer because it is important to their lives, like morals. The second part we went through the moral of the story. This went well because I did a lot of guiding and questioning in order to get the students to the answers. Morals are tricky to teach because a book can teach people many different lessons. The students could not think of other morals the story taught them when I said that one moral a student said could be the answers. Next time, I will have the students write down what they think it is first and then discuss the story. The last part was where the students had to come up with their own morals that they follow. A lot of the answers were "Be kind or nice" or "Don't lie" I know there are many more, but these are ones that are common. When we do this activity again, I am going to have the students try to come up with different morals other than this. Overall, this was a successful lesson, and the teacher even carried on with it during RTI time.