Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences

4. Teacher Reflection: what works and why
is important because it helps us modify instruction
*Keep students engaged with activity. Did I?
*Vary activities: ask self what worked? Am I varying?
*Look at student work
*Look at student behaviors as a group and as an individual
*Target information to appropriate learning levels
*Listing successes and failures at end of cycles, and more often
*At the end of lesson plan, record who gets it.

where the class went with the concept.
what I need to put in place if the class has difficulty.
what were class interesting questions they wish to explore.
students "buying into" process - keeping pace very fast to keep students engaged and busy.