TPA Lesson Plan

                From my first impression of looking at the TPA lesson plan, I found it a little intimidating. The fact that this is something we have to accomplish for every lesson becomes a bit of a large task. I have not had the pleasure of filling one of these out yet, but I feel like they are very detailed and will take a lot of time to fine tune and get down to a science, but I feel like they keep a very well detailed plan and give great direction to each day and where we want to take the class. I found it very interesting that the lesson plan was created by the University of California’s graduate school. I never would have expected that a school was so close to us that created something so important for schools to use on a daily basis.

                When looking at the framework it gave a great idea of how to break down the lesson plan. I never thought about having to break down the class by female and male numbers to decide what and how the lesson will go. I found the part about deciding about the students prior knowledge and skills to be a little bit hard to digest. I mean we have a basic understanding of what students are supposed to learn, but we have no knowledge of what actually the students have retained. The rest of the questions we need to reflect on under the “Context  for Learning” section seem pretty straight forward and what we have been discussing this entire class about our students and how to best teach them.

                I found each section to be a bit overwhelming as it went into such detail that it was a lot to take in all at once. I feel like it is so detailed because the children we teach we are shaping their future and what matters most is getting them the best education possible. I did enjoy the part talking about how we will assess what the kids learn because I never really thought about having to assess everything after teaching the lesson, but it makes sense. I believe that the children have just as much influence on deciding if the lesson was effective and can make all the different within a teacher’s lesson plan from what I have seen.