Reflection on USBD Lesson

Creating the lesson was fine, I did not have a problem using the format that was given for this type of lesson. I knew when I started that I wanted the lesson to be something that the students would do on their own without a lot of teacher center learning. I chose to do an activity that I am going to be doing with my advanced biology class this week. Creating the lesson was not very hard because I already knew what activity I was going to do, all I needed to do was expand it to work with the USBD lesson format.

The only difficulties that I encountered was that I felt like I was repeating myself a lot. Maybe I was not doing something correctly, hopefully when I get some remarks from other people they will tell me whether I was doing something wrong or if there is something I can do better.

I liked the format but, like I said the only thing is that I felt like I was repeating myself a lot. I am not sure if I was doing something wrong or if that is just the nature of the lesson. I also think that if I was using the template for an entire unit that I would not have felt like I was repeating myself as much because there would be a lot of different little topics that I would be covering.

If I was going to change something, I might change to either have a few less categories for a single lesson or I might change the template to be for an entire unit of work. Overall though, I thought that it was an interesting way of looking at a lesson. I also realized that I find it easier to determine the more detailed points I want my students to take away from a lesson rather than the overarching topics.