Reflection Part 2

   I really cannot emphasize enough how much I learned from the fieldwork experience in this class. There were so many little details that I didn't realize were so crucial. My group had a timeline as one of our guided practice activities and I didn't realize that it was important to introduce the timeline during the actual lesson and create one for them to refer to when they make it later on. We created a note sheet for the students to use to follow along while we taught the direct lesson and we added a timeline on to the bottom of the page for students to write down the important events that we wrote on the board, then we had the students refer to that timeline while we filled out the one for the guided practice activity. That was such a minor detail that I didn't think would effect the lesson, but it ended up being extremely useful to have that.
   My group also should've broken up our direct instruction more because there was way too much time spent on lecturing, so the students were getting bored and had a hard time focusing. Overall, our three lessons went pretty well; it's impossible to be perfect, but we did a great job. I think that every group did well, including the first group even though they did make a lot of minor mistakes that all of the other groups were able to learn from and make sure to prevent. There were also good parts to every lessons which helped the group that followed. For example, the first group did artifact bags, but they helped the students too much, gave everyone the same bag, and didn't model the process, so when my group went, we didn't provide as much guidance, gave each student different items, and modeled with another bag. Then group two went and they used different ways to check for understanding and incorporated a note sheet, so my group also took those things into consideration. This fieldwork experience was very informative and I'm really glad I had the opportunity to partake in this experience.