Lesson Assessment

This week my uni supervisor (who is actually the principal at my school) came to watch my lesson.

In my personal opinion it was a complete flop.
And after it i felt pretty bummed.

I did a maths lesson and the plan was to make it open ended so it was differentiated for everyone.

The question was: Which two digit number when halved is an odd number?

I think i went in knowing that it would be too hard for the kids, but it did it anyway. And i was right, it was too hard. I think like 5 students understood the concept.

So i looked like an idiot and i got really red in the face etc.

But when i had a chat with the principal he said he was actually really impressed with the lesson.
He said i was confident, and had a great voice, i was very prepared with my resources, i incorporated the IWB, i had great classroom management, the lesson was well structured and timed and i used a lot of different strategies when i saw that students weren't understanding.

I told him i hated the lesson and that i thought it went horribly, but he said that thats a sign of a good teacher, being able to feel and detect that the class isn't getting the concepts being taught.

Even though he was giving me lots of positive feedback, i still felt bummed. But i've realised now, my teaching was great, i was just upset the students didn't get the concept.

Now for next time i definitely need to pre test to see where students are at.

Everyone in the staff room could see i was a little upset and they were all so supportive, telling me stories about how they have had bad lessons and they still to this day after 20-30 years of teaching they still have bad lessons, so they all cheered me up.

Next lesson he comes to asses has to be a different KLA, so i might do a HSIE or Religion or English lesson.