Pick one lesson you've given this week, and use it to answer the following questions. Give yourself a moment to reflect upon the following before answering.
- Organization of lesson notes, does it include the following:
- an agenda or lesson outline,
- objectives with action verbs,
- L.E.A.R.N. component (link, evaluate, active, review, and new),
- scaffolded exercises if applicable,
- correctness, typos, clarity.
- Checks for understanding, does it include two to three? What ones were used? Why?
- Classroom context, how much did this lesson rely on the success of previous lessons?
- Connection, how well did it tie into the lab?
- Team work, how did you utilize a co-instructor and how did it impact the lesson? Was it impacted by procedures to collect feedback from students and fellow instructors: stand-ups, check-ins, etc?
- Relation to previous materials, how was it it different or did it improve upon previously exisiting materials? Did a lesson even exist?
How would you rate your lesson from 1-10 in terms of how close its content and delivery were to being a perfect lesson execution. Keep in mind that if it is given a 5 out 10 you feel as though it could be twice as good.
I would give this lesson a 7.
- Give a link to your lesson.
https://github.com/sf-wdi-15/notes/tree/master/week_03_express_sql/day_4_pg_cont/dusk_pg_node
- Please give your feedback on how you would improve it and any actions items you will take going forward with these materials.
The lesson lacked a lot of organizational components: links to resources that might be helpful, an outline of how the lesson was going to progress, examples of how sections of the code would change after refactoring. The lesson could have also have been more interactive, the a in L.E.A.R.N.. The format of the lesson used an external repo which was an idea borrowed from a fellow instructor that worked very well. It helped avoid some of the issues of getting up and running. It helped to discuss the master branch app.js and not focus on the other components before refactoring, so this lesson was very scoped on refactoring just the use of an array.