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Lesson Reflection Videotaped

My videotaped lesson was a math lesson for two first graders. The goal of the
lesson was for the students to learn how to combine two groups of objects and state
how many there were in all. I used a ten frame game for the lesson. The students
rolled a die and collected the number of cubes that they rolled. They put the cubes on
their ten frame. When they were done, I put both ten frames together and asked them
how many they had in all. The students would then count all of the cubes and give me
the answer. After they gave me the answer, I would rephrase their answer in a number
sentence. If one student rolled a five and the other student rolled a four, I would say
five plus four equals nine.
The students did very well with the game. They were able to count out the
number of cubes and place them on their ten frame. One student, CC, has some
difficulty with 1:1 correspondence and needed help from me when counting out her
cubes. The other student, AV, has some attention difficulties. When he is not engaged,
he sits back and zones out. I feel that I should have differentiated for him a little more.
He would have been able to write the number sentences on a white board, and that may
have helped to keep him more engaged. I also found that I was supporting, and
engaging with, CC more than AV. I think this happened because CC was more actively
engaged so I gravitated to her more. When AV was not engaged, he sat quietly. He
didnt have any behaviors that drew my attention to him. I feel that I did not engage with
him as much because he didnt call my attention to him. In the future I need to be more
cognizant of the students engagement level when I am working in a group. I have a

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tendency to focus more on one student and I need to make sure that I spread my
attention to all of the students in my group.