Role Play
Today I video taped the lesson for this class. Splicing the video was a real challenge since I am not used to using a Mac and I thought that creating the video in iMovie would be the best choice. That was a headache.
The lesson went really well. It was the first time that I have incorporated role play into a lesson. Wow! The students really enjoyed that aspect. They liked it so much that they begged to extend the lesson. When I asked what they liked about it, they said that they liked feeling that they were actually an artist [in this case] and one student said that they wanted to continue it.
I was really surprised by this. First of all I didn't expect that they would like it so much, but then they took the activity seriously on top of that. Especially for EAL students, this will be a powerful tool next year.
As for the inquiry part of the lesson, that surprised me as well. I had several parts of the lesson planned, but didn't do any of them since the students were so engaged with the first part of it. I need to examine this lesson and think of the parts that made it special, then use those for future lessons.
The lesson went really well. It was the first time that I have incorporated role play into a lesson. Wow! The students really enjoyed that aspect. They liked it so much that they begged to extend the lesson. When I asked what they liked about it, they said that they liked feeling that they were actually an artist [in this case] and one student said that they wanted to continue it.
I was really surprised by this. First of all I didn't expect that they would like it so much, but then they took the activity seriously on top of that. Especially for EAL students, this will be a powerful tool next year.
As for the inquiry part of the lesson, that surprised me as well. I had several parts of the lesson planned, but didn't do any of them since the students were so engaged with the first part of it. I need to examine this lesson and think of the parts that made it special, then use those for future lessons.
