A Teacher's Self-Evaluation

Paper Summary:

The writer examines the strengths and weaknesses of her lesson on bicycle safety to third grade students. The writer commends the lesson's interactive nature and criticizes its occasional halting delivery and the over-abundance of statistics. The writer concludes that overall, she learned a great deal about working with young children.

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"The implementation of the project (the teaching seminar or lesson) was complicated by the students to the extent that they were quite young - they were chiefly eight years of age. This is an interesting age to be a child, for it is at this age that they really begin to articulate a desire to learn things (they can almost converse at an adult level) and they also are emotionally turbulent, happy one moment, displeased and brooding the next (Destefanis & Firchow, 2004). Given this, and given the general developmental stage of the children involved, the teacher was actively encouraged to participate in the "guiding phase" of the proceedings. Happily, Mrs. Jones proved a most congenial and professional assistant and facilitated the smooth operation of the activities comprising the lesson."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute. (2007). Helmet-related statistics from many sources. Bicycle Helmet Statistics. Retrieved February 17, 2007 from <http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm>
• Destefanis, J. & Firchow, N. (2004). Developmental milestones: The 8-Year old. Retrieved February 9, 2007, from http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.aspx?r=866

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