Reflection on a Lesson Plan Taught

Virginia Teachers for Tomorrow

Intern Name: Katherine Stauch
Lesson Title (Subecjt/Topc): Exploring Voice Journal Entry

1. What steps did you go through to create this lesson? With whom did you talk, discuss,
or edit your lesson?
I began brainstorming ideas that led to this lesson after my cooperating teacher asked me to
create a journal entry to review southern/literary voice on the first day of my internship. After I
came up with the idea, I created the outline for the lesson, asked my cooperating teacher to
review it, and then started to make the PowerPoint that would guide my lesson.

2. How did the SOLs and Objectives help focus your instruction?
After coming up with my overall idea, the curriculum objectives helped me focus on key
concepts within my lesson.

3. What parts of the instructional plan worked as you anticipated?

I was really pleased with the student participation and high level of responses during the recall
discussion. When the students shared their journal entries, they were all very different from one
another which was extremely effective in portraying the different concepts within the lesson.

4. What, if any, adjustments needed to be made once you began?

While doing the lesson, I had to give the students more time than allotted in my plans to write
their journal entries.

5. How well did you anticipate the materials needed?

All needed materials were accounted for.

6. How effective was the assessment you chose to use? (If no assessment was used, what
will the future assessment be and how will you gauge its effectiveness?)
The assessment was very effective, because after their journal entries were graded, my
cooperating teacher had a gage on how well the students had grasped the concept of literary
voice.

7. To what degree do you feel that this lesson was a success? What evidence do you
have for the success of the lesson? (Hint: Student learning is the key to a lesson’s success!)
Both my cooperating teacher and I agreed that this lesson was a success. The students’ depth of
understanding could be seen in the class discussion as well as in the students’ journal entries.

8. How did the time spent preparing for your lesson contribute to it’s success?
I did spend a great deal of time planning and revising my lesson which contributed to it’s
success.
9. If you could do this lesson again with the same students, would you do anything
differently? If so, what?
I would allow more time at the end of the lesson for students to share their journal entries, as it
was so valuable to hear the varied examples of literary voice.

10. Any last comments/reflections about your lesson?

I thought my first lesson was extremely successful in reviewing the concepts that the students
had already learned. My cooperating teacher did this lesson with all her English classes, because
she thought it was so successful.