Srta+Catherine+-+Lesson+II+Post+Lesson+Reflection+&+Analysis

** School/Placement: North Middle School  ** ** Grade Level: 8th grade  ** ** Subject: Spanish  ** ** Date: 29 March 2011  ** ** Instructional Model: Direct Instruction  ** ** Lesson Title: Family Booklets  ** **  1. As I reflect on the lesson, to what extent were the students productively engaged? **   I thought the students were very productively engaged overall. We started the lesson with “Clue” review game in which the students had to identify the noun that I was describing based on the adjectives that I had given them. This was an effective strategy because it allowed the students to work in teams, fostered healthy competition, and got them to review chapter vocabulary. After the review, I began to introduce the project. The students were not excited about having to work on another project but once I explained to them that they could be creative and even make up family members to put in their booklets, they became excited about it. They were very productive for the entire class period. Originally, I wasn’t going to have the students work with partners/groups but it worked to their advantage. They could bounce ideas off of their peers and it felt like a “treat” to them to get to work with partners/groups. **  2. Were my instructional goals met? Did the students learn what I intended? How do I know/when will I know? **   My instructional goals were met. After two class periods, the students handed in some fabulous work. They really understood what they needed to do and even exceeded my expectations. I could tell that they had a good grasp on the grammar which was the real target of this project. Some of the students that normally are proficient in Spanish demonstrated some advanced work. I was proud of my teaching and proud of my students’ enthusiasm. **  3. If I had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would I do differently and why? **   If I had the opportunity to teach this lesson again, I would go through a couple of samples before sending them off to work. I think if I would have done some sample sentences with them, that would push the kids who “don’t quite get it” into the “I get it now” stage. Overall, there was great performance on this lesson but I would like to push their understanding a bit further.
 * Student Name: Catherine Scaffidi **

** Student #1 – High Achievement  ** Relative to the objectives this student has performed extremely well. There are no mistakes in her work sample and it is evident that she has an extremely strong grasp on the grammar and sentence structure concepts. In addition, her work is creative and follows all of the components of the rubric. This student’s area of strength is adjective use and structure and her weakness is sentence fluency. Her direct demonstration of the family booklet leads me to infer that she’ll be able to transfer these grammar concepts to many other contexts. No accommodations were necessary for this student who demonstrated high achievement.

** Student #2 – Average Achievement  ** Relative to the objectives, this student is also performing very well. He used correct grammar and sentence structure and was right on target for this grade level. His area of strength sentence structure and his area of weakness was variance of adjectives. Compared to the exemplary, his vocabulary is average, though it is used correctly. He followed the models on the rubric and did not venture into creating his own original sentences. From this student’s family booklet, I can infer that he above average in artistic ability and average in Spanish language ability. Many other students exhibited much of the same skills. It seems that no accommodations were needed for this student and overall, his paper was in line with an average performance. ** Student #3 – Low Achievement  ** Relative to the objectives, this student performed quite low. Her areas of strength are organization and artistic ability and her areas of weakness are grammar and following directions. This student did not include five sentences for each family member and her booklet did not follow the model that was given in class. From her direct demonstration of the family booklet, I can infer that she does not quite understand the grammar concepts from 5A and 5B of // Realidades //. It is evident that she needs more practice and some individual help with the concepts. None of the specified accommodations were needed for this project but she may need some for future projects.