MDD 5

Mara Beln Quezada Cornejo

Teaching Experience II

Ms. Astrid Guerra

 MDD5: INSTRUCTIONAL DECISION MAKING

MDD Standard

The teacher candidate makes adjustments to the lesson plans based on

assessment data and pupils engagement, communicating the analysis
and conclusions regarding the impact of instruction.

Lesson 1

1. Student Response to Lesson 1:

Firstly, at the beginning of the lesson, the students understood the vocabulary,
but they did not feel confident, for this reason, they did not participate actively in
the activities. Thus, I decided to talk about my family as an ice breaker. After the
pair discussion, the students felt more confident and shared anecdotes of their
siblings.

1.2 Adjustments for Lesson 1:

First of all, I need to use more CCQs, since the students need to understand the
instructions and participate in class. Also, the CCQs are useful for check if they
are paying attention to the lesson or not.

1.3 Analysis of Learning Results:

1.3.1 Whole Class.

Students worked very actively during the lesson, they disused with the
classmates and asked for help when they had doubts. On the other hand, the
students spent more time than expected in the task, since I noticed that they
lost the concentration quickly.

1.3.2 Individuals.

The first student has a high level of proficiency in the English language. She
brought all the materials that were requested. Besides, she paid attention to the
instructions and participated actively throughout the class. On the other hand,
during the task, she did not ask questions or doubt, and in occasions she made
me believe that she had difficulties. This student was the only one who finished
 the task in the established time, so she was the only one that presented his
family tree in front of the class.

The second student, despite of has a high level of English, he had a bad
attitude during the class. At first, he did not want to do anything, he sat in the
corner of the room and began to laugh loudly interrupting the class.

1.4 Impact of your instruction on Student Learning:

1.4.1 Identify what you believe to be the instructional strategies and

activities that contributed most to student learning.

In my opinion, the instructions were clear, and they understood the task since I
presented an example of the task. Nevertheless, I did not do any extra activity
such as a worksheet that I had planned because they were very excited to start
working on their family trees.

1.4.2 Explain how your teaching behaviors affected student learning.

Consider student response to explaining, giving directions,
modeling, organizing activities, leading discussions, the pacing of
the lesson, and the overall organization of the lesson.

Before teaching the class I felt a little nervous and anxious at the same time, but
later I felt more confident when I realized that I knew the topic of the class and
the students understood what I was saying. Moreover, the guide teacher helped
me to control some students who were misbehaving.