February 23, 2009

Today we finished up our lesson plans that we started last week. We had them peer-reviewed and turned them in. I thought that peer-reviewing the lesson plans was very helpful. It was interesting to read someone else's lesson plan and hear their ideas. It is interesting how different all of the plans can be. I liked the format that we used to write the lesson plans, because it helped in how to plan out the lesson. The format made me think through many specifics that I may not have thought through otherwise. I also thought that the format was helpful in reading another person's lesson plan because it helped to see all parts of the lesson and envision what would be going on. The format helped the writer to be very thorough in the plan. I think that it is hard to write a lesson plan in a class like this because it will not be implemented in a classroom any time soon. I also think that it is hard to think of a good lesson because there is not a specific group of students that you are thinking of when writing the lesson. I think that once I am a teacher it will be much easier to write lessons because I will know the students that I am working with and what kind of lesson fits their learning style best.