MT1 Reflection

December 5, 2015

What happened? What went well?  What was an area of weakness? MT1 was definitely a learning experience.  Since I was sick when everyone else did theirs I had to improvise and have my classroom at my father’s law firm.  Overall, I think my student understood that you can’t tell how something is organic by just sight, smell and taste.  In fact, you have to have faith in the certifier that allowed the farmer to put the “certified organic” sticker on their produce or you must know what the produce was grown in.  My area of weakness was not allowing myself enough time to really know my lines before filming.

What objectives were met? What is the evidence? Which students did not meet the objectives?  Which students exceeded objectives? Why?  The objective was to understand what organic is and that objective was met.  The evidence was driven home with the hook when I asked “can you tell which is organic by just sight or taste” and my student answered “no”.

What was learned from this experience?  Evidence of teacher candidate learning.  I was prepared to teach the lesson but wasn’t prepared to be teaching while being videoed.

How will this experience influence my professional identity? I learned from this experience and improved upon seen in my MT2. I was better prepared.

How will it influence how I plan/teach/assess in the future?  I don’t foresee myself being filmed while teaching in my professional career.  But reading over the lesson a few times doesn’t hurt.