Kevin Williams

Prof. Reilly
EDUC 359: ELL
Live Lesson Reflection
1. The objectives for our lesson were broken into language and
content objectives, which included content for English and Social
Studies. Our language objective was: Students will be able to
define segregation, racism, and interpret the theme of courage. I
feel this objective was met incredibly successfully as we had our
student complete a packet in which she had to define the word in
her own words, use it in a sentence, and draw a picture. Each of
these tasks asked the student to remember the word in different
ways, targeting many diffferernt learning objects. In addition, we
had students jigsaw using these vocabulary words which would
allow our student to learn from her peers, as well as the teacher.
We know she compelted this objective by discussing the words
after the jigsaw activity and assessing her knowledge through
developmental questions. Our content objective was: Students
will demonstrate their understanding of the culture of the
American South and Racism. This was accomplished through
video and through discussion. In our discussion with our student,
we believe she fully understand the ideas of seperte but equal
and the racial situation of the southern United States.
2. I feel as though we challenged our student with vocabulary
words because, even though she knew what some of the words

meant, she did not know how they were all related and different
uses of the words. For example, she understood that segregation
meant separate, but did not know how this idea could be applied
in society. Furthermore, a word like ethics is difficult to define,
and by allowing for discussion and input on the multiple
definitions of the word, our student had a better understanding
of her vocabulary words. We know she understood them because
in our final discussion we asked her to apply the words she had
learned to a personal situation.
3. I felt as though our lesson was adequate, it just required more
students to be more effective. If we had more students to
participate in the jigsaw activity as well and the discussion at the
end of class we would have had more inputs and opinions that
would have better facilitated learning. I think the part of the
lesson that was difficult was for the student to understand the
court case of Plessey V Ferguson. In a future lesson I may have
slowed down his part and really tried to hammer home its
important points while putting in a better evaluation method.
4. If my student did not have a good comprehension of the English
language I would have slowed down. I would not have assumed
that my student had good background knowledge on certain
items and would have provided more of it. I would have also
focused more on the pronunciation of the vocab words and would
have had the students complete a worksheet in which they had

to provide a couple of definitions for one word while also verbally

using the word in a sentence.