In-Class Teaching Reflection

Overall I think that our lesson went very well. There were weak points as well as strengths. I thought the hook was a good idea but we could have chosen a better movie. I had never seen that movie before and was a little uncomfortable watching it in class, which I am sure someone else in the class might have felt the same way. As a teacher I would never want anyone in my classroom to feel uncomfortable.

The definition game was a good idea, but when it was put into practice it didn't go over so well. The students were not into it. I didn't think that they got much out of it. After the first couple of word the students stopped participating. Next time I would make it more exciting for the students. If it was more of a competition, or if the words had a harder definitions. It would also be fun to put the book definition in the mix and have the students try and guess which definition was from the book.

The scale of intrinsic to extrinsic motivation was a good activity. It gave the students an opportunity to apply was we were learning to their lives. It also gave them a chance to get up out of their desks and move.

By far the best part of the lesson were the skits. The entire lesson I felt like we were trying to drag responses out of the class. It seemed like most of the them weren't not engaged in the lesson. The skits helped get the students excited about learning. Good things about the skits were that we were able to give them examples and they got to have the opportunity to show us if they understood. Having a time limit on it was great. We didn't waste anytime and each group did a wonderful job. Another great thing about the skits were that we had props. I really think the props help the students get excited about actually doing the play and they also gave students ideas on what they should do for their play.

Throughout our lesson we used many different psychology principles. Our lesson was on motivation. Throughout the entire lesson we were trying to keep the students extrinsically motivated. We gave incentives and rewards. Most of the reasons behind what we did was to motivate students to learn about motivation, also to motivate them to be teachers, and show them way in which they could motivate their own students.