What do you do when lessons don't go as planned?

 

 

 

What have you done when a carefully thought-out lesson didn’t go as planned? When you felt certain your students understood a concept, but a formative assessment showed they didn’t? How did you address this “bump in the road”? What did you do to ensure your students learned what they needed to learn? What do you plan to do differently the next time?

 

Managing the Stuff of Teaching

 

Rutherford (2009) states that after the importance of establishing a positive classroom environment the next important thing that must be done is to examine how we manage the stuff of the classroom.

 … “That has to be combined with the eternal quest for systems that work for handling the paper flow to and from and within the classroom, facilitating the work of large numbers of people, and to not only acquiring the necessary instructional tools but also being able to find them when we need them!” (Rutherford, Just Ask Publications Website)

 

How are you handling the paper flow (papers, work communication with parents)?   What have you observed that works and what could use improvement?   What are your challenges in this area?

 

Rutherford, P. (2009).  Why didn't I learn this in college? .Alexandria, VA: Just Ask Publishing.

Assessment

 

 

1  What does your assessment look like?  What practices do you use to assess student learning.  Is evaluation and assessment different in your classroom?  How?