Reflection #2

What?

Since we had a holiday on Monday and weren't able to attend class, I'm going to reflect apon something that we did in one of the other education classes.

In my Curriculum Assessment and Design class, we discussed and went over how to do start and finish a backwards design. This is one way that will help get started on doing a lesson plan that we will use as teachers.

So What?

A backwards design/lesson plan will help me as a teacher because it will allow me to organize the information that I'll need to teach and also to get a better knowledge of what the core curriculum is. Although as a teacher, we'll need to look over the core curriculum at the beginning of the year, having to look at them again as I do my backwards design/lesson plan will refresh my memory of what it is that I need to be teaching.

As a teacher, this will reflect how commited and organized I am. It will aslo show how serious I am about teaching my students what they need to know and make sure that they understand everything being taught.

Now What?

I can apply a backwards design/lesson plans to everyday teaching. It's something that will always come in hand when you need it or even for when you have to have a substitute. A lesson plan is just another way to better organize your information and the core curriculum that you have to teach.

I still need to improve on fully understanding how to do the backwards design. It's still a little clowdy to me even though it seems to be very easy.