Ch. 12 response

5. One way to reflect on a lesson is to write out notes on your lesson plan where it could be better. This will make teaching more effective and efficient. If the teacher can change their mistakes then it will help keep the students more focused and therefore allow them to absorb more knowledge. The teacher could also consider how the lesson impacted the students. This type of reflection is important because a teacher needs to know if the students benefited from the lesson and if it would be the correct time to move forward in the unit.

I liked the idea of breaking up student learning into three categories: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. The categories are then broken up into smaller categories. These sub categories make assessing student learning very easy. The teacher can look at each objective and decide if the student has achieved any of the learning objectives. The book described the Psychomotor skills as a tool that is mainly used by physical educators, but i think it applies very well to art educators. It is important in art because students needs to be able to use their motors skills to accurately represent and idea on paper or three dimensionally.

Is it okay to ask the students to assess the how affective the teachers lesson plan is?