Instructional Decisions

I learned that I could have used a little bit more than 40 minutes, but not much more, to teach the lesson I was doing. In a classroom of 30 students, I would have needed to split this lesson into 2 separate lessons or have taken the silhouette pictures and have them downloaded before the lesson began. By looking at the outcome of the 3 different projects, my directions were either not specific enough or they were interpreted differently by at least one student. One student had several words to describe herself per letter so they only made it through their first name in the acrostic poem lesson.
The objective of making an acrostic poem with students’ names was met. I encouraged one student to move onto their middle name because he finished his first and last name but he continued working with the Pixie program and helped another student; this was appropriate behavior and he was being helpful so his lesson did not get modified. It was acceptable for the student who only made it through her first name because that was as much as she was capable of doing and she was content with her product. I thought the lesson went well.