Lesson Plan & Implementation:
Reflection and Analysis
College of Education
Childhood Education & Literacy Studies
Reflection is a critical process for supporting your growth and development as a
professional. At the end of each lesson, you should reflect on the experience and analyze its
effectiveness. This part of the process consists of two parts: the reflection and the analysis.
The Reflection: The reflection component should make you think about your overall
impressions and feelings that you had. You also might address something that surprised
you or something that made you pause.
Questions to consider in your reflection:
1. What aspects of your lesson were implemented differently than you planned? Why did that
happen?
2. If you were going to teach this lesson to the same group of students, what would you do
differently? Why? What would you do the same? Why?
3. What surprised you in your lesson?
4. Describe an instance or particular encounter that comes to mind. Why did you pick that
instance? What is so perplexing about that particular moment?
5. What connections can you make to your lesson today from your coursework, th e literature, and
any previous lessons or experiences?
The Analysis: The analysis part addresses the lesson’s effectiveness – to what extent did the
students meet the objectives stated in your lesson plan and how do you know? Make a
claim about student learning and support it with evidence that you gathered from the
lesson.
General questions to consider in your analysis:
1. To what extend did the students learn what was intended? How do you know? As part of your
answer, please indicate:
a. In what ways were your teaching methods effective? How do you know?
b. In what ways were your activities effective? How do you know?
c. In what ways were the instructional materials effective?
d. How did any special considerations of accommodations affect the lesson?
2. Identify an individual or group of students who had difficulty in today’s lesson. How do you
account for this performance? How will you help this (these) student(s) achieve the learning
objectives?
3. Identify an individual or group of students who did especially well in this lesson today. How do
you account for this performance?
4. Based on what happened in this lesson, what are the next steps? What do you plan to teach next
to this class? Be sure to explain how you will use information from this evaluation in future
lesson planning.
