Teaching Rich Task Reflection

I really enjoyed brainstorming ways to make our task more rich. It was a hard concept to wrap my head around while planning a lesson and then listening to my group members suggestions. I had an idea of what we wanted to talk about but making sure the task is rich became more complicated than I had thought it would be. It's easy to say make a task better, make sure the students get the most out of it but when it comes down to analyzing pre-made lessons an making sure they are rich enough. It was an awesome experience and gives us the awareness of what to pay attention to when planning.

I loved presenting ours and thinking of what could go wrong or differently in front of a class. It is always eye opening when you go from talking about a lesson to actually doing it. Just preparing for the lesson we learn what techniques would work and what wouldn't. I wish we would have added some addition into the work so the students would see who had the highest total coins at the end. With the Kaboom the students would have lower numbers and so on. Then we could use the idea of money and what we could buy.

I liked the other lessons and thinking of ways to help, ways to use the lessons in different grades and ideas that could come from one lesson. The other two lessons had fun ideas behind them. One thing I learned as a teacher is things will go wrong or not as smoothly and learning to deal with it and prepare better for next time. An example of this would be cutting the tin foil ahead of time to cut time spent standing around or addressing the issue of students like Hallie and I making inappropriate drawings on the wall. :)