Phase 2 of Micro Lesson 1: Instructional Decisions/Teaching

1.   Instructional Decisions/Teaching: Discuss the implementation process and describe

o    What you did and learned from the teaching/facilitating process

o    How alignment to goals and objectives was maintained

o    Modifications made for individual needs

During our teaching, I learned that teachers need to be really careful of this estimations they make about their students. Going into the lesson, I assumed that exponent rules was something that was common knowledge, or at least knowledge that would just need to be recalled with a review. Once I started to review with my "students" I learned differently. This taught me that I need to be careful about the assumptions I make about students, over estimating can cause just as many problems as under estimating student ability. My goals and objectives were not aligned very well with the lesson that was given. My goals were that students would be able to show that they can work with negative exponents, but once I began teaching those goals changed into wanting them to be able to know the exponent rules. I ended up modifying my entire lesson for the needs of the "students". We worked a really long time on learning the "basics" of exponents before we got to the content that was originally planned for the lesson. I modified some of the problems on the worksheets to better work with learning  exponential rules, and to make them simpler than they were before. Overall, I really had to make major modifications to work with the level that my "students" were at.