#5 Reflection on Lesson
Practice Lesson Presentation Throughout my time at Columbia College I can not count the number of lessons I have written. However, I have never used this format or used categories such as the Blooms Taxonomy, Research Based Instructional Strategies, Activity Groupings, or a section for Checks of Understanding. Each of these categories was new to me and took me a while to decode and determine what to place in each box. For example, I had been introduced to Blooms Taxonomy previously, but I have never been asked to describe a lesson as one section of Blooms. It was interesting to take a step back and truly consider what exactly I was asking students to do within the lesson. I also felt this way about the instructional strategies section. As teachers, we often use resources such as books or the website to find lessons; however, I have never looked up the research behind each method. I simply take lessons or ideas as they are without diving into the why behind them. I also enj