Phase II: Reflections on Lessons Implementation

1. Instructional Decisions/Teaching (in task Standard #9):
- In the lesson what went well was the whole modeling process by showing videos and how the assessment needs to be done using the rubric. The feedbacks of my classmates, they mentioned to explain the videos in more detail for the students to understand what they will be doing.
- I think the objective was really well aligned to the standards. What the writing standard was creating an opinion piece and in the objectives that is what the students would be doing.
- The modifications that my partner and I had done was creating an assessment that aligned with the standard and modifying the objective.
2. Mechanics:
- The technology that I used for both the teacher and the students were the videos, doc camera, and scholastic website for the passages.
- These technologies were used by stopping in the middle of the videos for the students to answer a question. The doc camera was used to model how to write an opinion piece in the graphic organizer while the students raise their hands and add to the organizer.The scholastic website was the assessment, the students will read the passage and write on the opinion worksheet.
- The lesson was in the correct time frame because my partner and I modeled what was expected and practiced what we were going to do and say during the lesson.
3. Assessment of Learning (in task Standard #6):

- The first artifact is the teacher example in opinion writing. My partner and I modeled with the students how to write an opinion piece.

The second artifact is the scholastic website. The students went to the website to read a passage to have ideas in order to write their opinion piece. They also had a chance to vote their opinion and take a look at other votes.

- The objective was said in the beginning, middle of the modeling and before beginning the assessment. Taking a look at the rubric the students knew what will graded in the assessment and worked independently. 
- I think our lesson went well, from my individual reflections we assessed the student based off the standards and it also aligned with the objective. We modeled and had classroom discussion were the students also brainstormed together.
- The feedback from my classmates support this in the survey. They mentioned we did a good job modeling how they will write in their assessment. The only thing was explaining more in detail from the videos.

4. What did you learn from designing and teaching this lesson and how will you use this in the creation of future lessons/learning activities. 
What I learned from designing the lesson is the objective and assessment that is given should always be aligned with the standards. What I learned from teaching this lesson is that modeling is always effective in order for the students to understand what they will be doing during the lesson and for their assessment. I could use ideas from this lesson by modifying and adding more to it when the students are writing from paragraphs to essays.