Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize assessment data to justify
your level of achievement)

Based on the notes worksheet completion, the students can conjugate the verb to be
for the most part. They struggle a little with the difference between the plural you and
singular you, but understand that verbs have different conjugations in general. After
the first pair and share session, the students also remember what subject pronouns are
and can identify them in English grammar. While the students worked together on the
worksheets example sentences, I walked around and heard many of them helping each
other choose the correct verb conjugation. Based on that interaction, a lot of the
students understood the lesson objectives. This verb is difficult because it is irregular
but it is also extremely important as a foundation in French so they will continue to
learn it for the next two weeks (at least).

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would you make if you were to
teach again?

If I were to teach this lesson again, I would be more willing to try group work. That is to
say, I would want to put the 35 students into smaller groups and have them quiz each
other on vocabulary words for their quiz, practice numbers, and then start learning the
verb. I was worried about putting them into groups because of how energetic and
talkative they usually are, but as you (Ryan) said, the way group activities work out
depends on the teacher and how they set it up.

Initially, I would help guide them with verb practice and give them the basic
conjugations but then in groups, I would let them explore those conjugations together
and figure out what they mean in English and how to use them in French. Afterward,
each group could write a dialogue using vocabulary and verbs theyve learned so far this
semester. With the dialogue activity, each group could be formed intentionally based on
skill level.

Another thing I learned about in my methods class the same day as my lesson was how
to make language lessons thematic. For example, you can teach vocabulary about food
and hunger while also teaching kids about different foods around the world, health,
poverty, etc. I want to reteach this lesson making it more about adjectives as well and
giving kids the tools to describe themselves/their lives.

In this lesson, I imitated my match up teacher a lot to give the students consistency.
Next time, Im going to try to branch out into my own style more.
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice, reteach content, etc.)

For the next lesson, as I said before, I want more collaboration and students teaching
students (kind of like in AVID tutoring tutorials). The students will need continued
practice on when to use which conjugation of the verb so I might have them do a group
activity where they create a text or act something out using the verb. Even though they
are only in French 1, they know more than they think they do. As far as reteaching
content goes, the students might need more information about grammatical structures
in general. For example, they might know that I, you, he, she, we etc are the subject of
the sentence, but they dont know what to call that part of speech. My match up
teacher has said that we really need to drill this verb into their minds so I would try to
come up with multiple activities that encourage students to try using the verb
themselves as opposed to memorization. Memorization has its time and place, but too
much of it isnt effective. Along the same lines, I would include MORE adjectives and a
variety of example phrases using the verbs for kids to put into practice immediately. I
think my match up teacher could encourage a little more French speaking from the
students than he does now, so I would ask them to practice speaking together;
collaborating in smaller groups might make them feel better about making mistakes or
not speaking as well as they think they should.