Extras from week 9

Planning the learning components of an instructional strategy...  This was a good week.  The preinstructional learning activities part of this made me really reflect on posting objectives.  I'll be honest and say that I used to think of this step as a necessary component only because it was required of me as a student and by my first principal.  My second principal is much more laid back.  As a result, I became a little slack and stopped posting objectives (and corresponding standards.)  My lessons are fun and engaging but only after really studying this chapter of our text did I realize that I was doing my students a disservice.  I want them to be able to evaluate our lesson (and particularly my instruction.)  Their feedback is important to me.  They can't do that if they don't know what their expected outcomes are in the first place.  Eye-opening moment for the teacher!