Until this course, I did not realize the true extent of creating lesson plans, let alone unit plans. A lot of time and patience goes into creating a great lesson plan. Looking back at our direct lesson, we should have made that part of the lesson a little shorter and more concise. I wish that we had known all that I know now about creating successful lessons. For our inquiry lesson, we should not have been as ambitious as we were. In reality, having four labs going on at one time, was a bit much. We should have had one lab experiment (like the other teacher candidates ended up doing) so that we could have spent more time working on that lab and gathering the data. We were so focused on completing each lab in time, that not all of the students were able complete their investigation sheet. When I was completing the EdTPA, I wish that I had more student examples and completed work. As the first group that went, we did not know we had to keep the student work and those samples we ended up saving came from the garbage! As the saying goes, you live and you learn or hindsight is 20 20!
If I were to do this again, I would take a completely different approach to the fieldwork lesson. I would make sure that my direct instruction was short and to the point. I would also incorporate more technology learning activities, like smart board games or even having the students come up to write on the board. I would also only have one experiment, so that we could focus on completing that and sharing our results and findings. We unfortunately did not get much time to go over our results and findings. It is very important that scientists share their findings, so that they can compare and contrast with others. The Scientific Method will also be incorporated into future lessons, as this process is very important to students to know.
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