Demonstrating Flexibility & Responsiveness
What is component 3E?
A well planned lesson may not require any adjustments during the lesson. However, even the most experienced will sometimes find it necessary to make changes to their lessons as they are teaching. The lesson might be going to fast, and the teacher needs to slow down or review, or the opposite could happen, where students are bored because the pace is too slow. Teachable moments may present themselves during a lesson, and the teacher must evaluate whether or not to take these valuable opportunities. A carefully thought out lesson could be able to predict how the lesson will unfold, but some situations call for flexibility and responsiveness.
Why do you need it?
It would not be fair to students if a teacher always followed every little aspect of their lesson plans. Lessons will be more engaging to students if teaching is accommodated to them and not just a generalized class. Teachers should continue to attempt to reach and engage students, even when a lesson is not going as planned.
What are the elements?
Lesson adjustment: Teachers might find that they need to make minor, or major, changes to a lesson while they are teaching it. Whether these adjustments are made and are successful can depend on if the teacher had planned alternative activities and if they are comfortable making these instant shifts.
Response to students: A lesson may present a teachable moment that was not planned for. The teacher should weigh options, and decide whether deviating from the lesson will be beneficial or harmful.
Persistence: Good teachers will not give up on their students, and continue looking for different approaches to better reach their students.
In the classroom:
*A teacher plans to teach a lesson in one day, but at the end of class, the teacher does not feel that students have reached the learning objectives. Therefore, the teacher willingly adjusts plans to allow the class to spend another day on the lesson.
*A civics teacher had a lesson planned, but that day realizes that there was a political event that occurred last night that could be used to teach students about the different branches of the government, so the teacher changes the lesson to this.
*A teacher knows that students may not understand how they are teaching a lesson, so in the lesson plan the teacher has included some alternative approaches.
What is component 3E?
A well planned lesson may not require any adjustments during the lesson. However, even the most experienced will sometimes find it necessary to make changes to their lessons as they are teaching. The lesson might be going to fast, and the teacher needs to slow down or review, or the opposite could happen, where students are bored because the pace is too slow. Teachable moments may present themselves during a lesson, and the teacher must evaluate whether or not to take these valuable opportunities. A carefully thought out lesson could be able to predict how the lesson will unfold, but some situations call for flexibility and responsiveness.
Why do you need it?
It would not be fair to students if a teacher always followed every little aspect of their lesson plans. Lessons will be more engaging to students if teaching is accommodated to them and not just a generalized class. Teachers should continue to attempt to reach and engage students, even when a lesson is not going as planned.
What are the elements?
Lesson adjustment: Teachers might find that they need to make minor, or major, changes to a lesson while they are teaching it. Whether these adjustments are made and are successful can depend on if the teacher had planned alternative activities and if they are comfortable making these instant shifts.
Response to students: A lesson may present a teachable moment that was not planned for. The teacher should weigh options, and decide whether deviating from the lesson will be beneficial or harmful.
Persistence: Good teachers will not give up on their students, and continue looking for different approaches to better reach their students.
In the classroom:
*A teacher plans to teach a lesson in one day, but at the end of class, the teacher does not feel that students have reached the learning objectives. Therefore, the teacher willingly adjusts plans to allow the class to spend another day on the lesson.
*A civics teacher had a lesson planned, but that day realizes that there was a political event that occurred last night that could be used to teach students about the different branches of the government, so the teacher changes the lesson to this.
*A teacher knows that students may not understand how they are teaching a lesson, so in the lesson plan the teacher has included some alternative approaches.
Resources:
Agility balance. (2012). [image] Available at: https://www.pexels.com/photo/agility-balance-beautiful-girl-dancer-12343/ [Accessed 12 Nov. 2017].
PDE SAS. (2011). The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument. [online] Available at: http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/danielson_rubric_32.pdf [Accessed 05 Oct. 2017].
Agility balance. (2012). [image] Available at: https://www.pexels.com/photo/agility-balance-beautiful-girl-dancer-12343/ [Accessed 12 Nov. 2017].
PDE SAS. (2011). The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument. [online] Available at: http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/danielson_rubric_32.pdf [Accessed 05 Oct. 2017].