self-evaulation

Self-evaluation

This lesson unit was by far the hardest thing I have ever done in college. When it was first assigned, I thought it would be a piece of cake; boy was I wrong. I worked with my partner, Joel Crow, on this, and like Sean said, it was harder than working by yourself. However, when Joel and I got on the same page, we spent seven hour days in the library working on this unit plan together.  Our strongest aspect of our lesson plan unit, in my opinion, was the activities and texts that we had planned for the three-weeks. We picked very strong, strategic texts to match the literary device we planned to teach that day. I feel the short stories and activities we picked are directly aligned with the literary device that we had planned.

The weaknesses in our unit plan would be the time constraints with other classes and teaching that we had. I feel very strongly about our lesson plan unit, but if we had more time or no other classes, we could have made the lesson plan so much more detailed. For example, I would have loved to lit all of the big literary devices, and find a way to make it work. However, we decided on four major ones that we thought were the most important.

I learned so much during this lesson unit. I learned new things to include in my lesson plans form Joel, and I learned how much research teachers have to do to successfully teach a unit. The one major thing that I am going to take into my classroom after completing this three-week unit plan is it takes a lot of time and research to successfully plan a lesson. I also learned that planning a unit plan needs to be both fun for me and my future students.