Reflection of My Group's Lesson

Teaching our lesson to the class was a fun experience. I really enjoyed the behavior cards, and thought it made the lessons fun, while preparing us to deal with the worst kind of students. Much preparation went into creating this lesson. Of course there was the prep that went into making the podcast, but there was also preparation in making the actual lesson plan. After that we discussed the order of who would be teaching what part of the lesson. That did not take long. Most of the prep went into how we were going to deal with the behaviors. We knew that we would have to already know how to deal with certain behaviors beforehand.Thankfully, the students in our classroom were not that bad.
Our objective was to teach the students about WWI. We wanted them to understand the reasons that brought America into the war, as well as some of the battles and new weapons being used during that time. My part was to teach the students about Mustard gas. I wanted them to be able to know what mustard gas was, and how it effected the body. I also wanted them to be able to explain how it was used in WWI. As for the assessment, we were going to have our students right an essay about what we were teaching. This served as an objective and assessment. They would be able to write an essay on the topic, and we would have been able to grade it. This would let us know if they truly grasped the material.
The lesson did not exactly follow the plan. We were able to follow the basic structure, and teach the material in the plan. However, we ended up having too much material, and how to greatly shorten it. Matt ended up teaching for most of the lesson, while Luiz and I had to rush our parts to fit the lesson in. The most important thing I tried to teach the students during this rush was basically what mustard gas was, and how it affected the body.
Overall I think the lesson went very well. I was afraid that the behaviors might get the best of us, but we handled them very well. I was actually surprised at the questions they were asking. They seemed really engaged in the lesson. Even though they did not have the best behavior they taught me that even a misbehaved class could be an active one.
If I had to do it differently I would probably plan the lesson better so that the teaching parts were more spaced out. I would have liked it if Luiz and myself had more time, but the lesson just did not turn out that way. The lesson plan does not need much improvement, because having too much material in a lesson is not necessarily a bad thing. What we really needed was a Rubric for the essay, to give the students an idea of how we would have graded it. I could have improved how I dealt with some of the behaviors. I may have been a little to lenient on some of the students, and that could have been what made Matt wind up teaching for so long. Overall the lesson was a good one.