Ideas for Teacher Reflections for Literature

Piece of literature:

Literature ideas for the activity:

Describe what students discovered from reading, viewing, and or listening to the story.

What did students know about this type of story at the beginning of the lesson? How did you diagnose these ideas at the beginning of the lesson and what convinced you your inferences were accurate?

What reasoning processes and strategies did the students use? How did you focus students’ attention on them?

What did you learn that is important for other teachers to know?

Describe different ways students represented their understanding.

What did students learn? What did students do in the lesson to increase their understandings? How did you make decisions that facilitated students' understandings of those idea(s)? How did you focus students’ attention on these ideas?

What did students say or do to convince them and you they understood the ideas(s)?

What did the students say or do to convince them and you they could apply or expand on idea(s)? What ways were you able to push students to try new ideas to understand story elements, genre, and quality characteristics of a story?

What did students say or do to convince themselves and you they were doing literature?

Attitudes of literature:

How did you encourage students to use attitudes that people find helpful when reading, listening, or viewing literature? What did the students say or do to convince themselves and you that they valued and/or enjoyed literature?

How did you create opportunities where students had a desire to communicate with you or other students what they learned?

How did you increase students understanding of what literature is, how it can be used, and a desire to use and value it in their world?

What did you learn that is important for other teachers to know?