Melissa Nassaney EDUC 359 Intro to ELL Professor Reilly 12/8/13 Reflection on Live Lesson For this lesson,

my partner and I had a language objective and a content objective. Our language objective was that the student will be able to write the appropriate angle names and correctly pronounce the names of the angles in the lesson. Our content objective was that the student will be able to identify and distinguish between right, straight, acute, and obtuse angles. I think we achieved our objectives. Throughout the lesson, my partner and I asked the student to tell us the angle she was looking at or had just drawn. This not only achieved the part of the language objective that stated that the student will be able to pronounce the name of the angles correctly, it also achieved the content objective that stated that the student will be able to identify the four different types of angles. It achieved the content objective because the student was identifying the angle she was looking at or had just drawn. The student was also able to distinguish between the different types of angles by telling me and my partner the definition of each angle. For example, the student knew that a right angle was ninety degrees, a straight angle was one hundred eighty degrees, an obtuse angle was larger than ninety degrees, and an acute angle was smaller than ninety degrees. She also identified and distinguished between the angles by putting her arms in the appropriate position when we told her to show us a specific angle. Lastly, the student wrote the appropriate angle names correctly during the activity in which the teachers drew angles on the SmartBoard and the student identified the type of angle and then wrote its name on the SmartBoard below the drawing of the angle. She also wrote the appropriate angle names correctly when she labelled the angles she saw in the pictures of the dancers.

A goal of the lesson was to challenge the students vocabulary/language development. I think my partner and I challenged the students vocabulary/language development through the amount of vocabulary words we introduced to her. As an ELL student, being introduced to six new vocabulary words is something I think would be challenged. We also challenged her by introducing her to specifically math vocabulary words, not vocabulary words that she will use in her daily life. However, I think we could have challenged this particular student more because she wound up already knowing some of the vocabulary words for this lesson. In regards to the overall concept for this lesson, the student seemed to already be familiar with the topic of angles and the four different types of angles. For this reason I do not think the lesson was extremely difficult for her. However, I still think the lesson was not too easy for the student because she was only familiar with the math topic; she had not mastered it yet. In my opinion, the lesson wound up being right at the level the student was at. I do not think there was any part of the lesson that was too difficult for her. However, one part of the lesson that I thought might have been a little challenging for her was when she had to find the angles in the pictures of the dancers. She was able to identify at least one angle in each dancer; however, she did not pick out all of the angles, and, at times, had to take a good look at the dancers before identifying the angles she saw. If I were to do this lesson again, for this particular student, I would try to challenge her more. For example, I might make the protractor and measuring angles more of a focus of the lesson as opposed to having identifying and labelling the angles as the focus of the lesson. Finally, if I were to give this lesson again with an ELL student of the same age that has a basic understanding of the English language and lacks foundation of content knowledge, I believe I would have to spend more time on and go more in depth with the explanation of the

topic of angles in general, and specifically, with the different types of angles and vocabulary for this lesson. I would make sure to have a good introduction to the lesson and to repeat and reinforce the definitions and differences of the types of angles throughout the lesson. I would also stress the characteristics that distinguish one type of angle from another type of angle to help the student learn how to tell the difference between all of the angles. Lastly, I would be sure to have a good review at the end of the lesson to ensure the students understanding and his/her achievement of the objectives. Overall, I thought this lesson was beneficial to my future as an early childhood educator. It was good practice to plan a lesson in which my partner and I incorporated techniques that we would use if we were actually teaching the lesson to true ELL students. I believe my partner and I achieved the goals we wanted to achieve during this lesson. I think there were aspects of our lesson that were very effective and other aspects that we could make changes to if we were to use this lesson again in the future. Despite not being as challenging as it could have been for this particular student, I thought our lesson went well.