Mini Reflection Essay

While developing this lesson it was still helpful to look back and reflect on the two minute mini-mini lesson from the beginning of the semester, even though this lesson was more extensive. Since I am rather confident that I want to become a Spanish teacher at the high school level, it was much easier to choose a topic this time around. I have a rather decent understanding and comprehension of the Spanish language, but I still have plenty of room to grow and prosper. In order to accomplish and maintain the InTASC Standard of knowing the content in which I teach, I must continue learning and challenging myself to become more fluent in the Spanish language. My activity planning, time management, and delivery can always be improved. Teaching this lesson to the class was a small step in the right direction. As I was planning, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to complete a hands on activity with the class. As for teacher activities, I wanted to ensure I stayed involved while students were working and participating. Teacher activities are just as important as student activities. To focus the students on the lesson I asked the class to tell me, with a show of hands, who has taken a foreign language. It worked rather well

After speaking all together, it was time to assess them individually. Essentially, I wanted to conduct an activity which offered each student the opportunity to individually choose the correct answer while staying actively engaged. I was unsure as to what hands on activity I could use in order for my lesson to tie together efficiently. In my opinion, the Fly Swatter Game was rather successful in promoting student participation. A little friendly competition between teams helped with engagement, memorization, and would have been rather effective with more vocabulary terms as well as more