Emily Machado
Professor Reilly
EDUC 359- Introduction to English Language Learning
29 November 2015
Taralyn SIOP Lesson Reflection
1. The objectives of the lesson were: 1) Students will be able to write the differences
between rational and irrational numbers and 2) Students will be able to identify and
distinguish rational and rational numbers. I feel like we did achieve our objectives in our
lesson with Taralyn. By using the chain links, number lines, T-charts, and timed game in
our lesson, we could tell that Taralyn understood the differences and could identify
rational and irrational numbers. Taralyn also told us why she understood which numbers
were rational, and which numbers were irrational since she understood the definitions of
each and applied them to different problems.
2. Yes. We tapped into Taralyn’s prior knowledge since she was aware of radicals (which
tied into our lesson a little bit). By showing a video about a girl being irrational, we gave
Taralyn the material to create her own definition of the word irrational. I believe that the
vocabulary was challenging, but Taralyn understood and comprehended it extremely
well.
3. After a few games and practice problems, I noticed that Taralyn truly understood the
lesson, and it may have gotten to easy for her towards the end. I feel like all parts of the
lesson worked well in having our student truly understand the content. Adjustments I
would make to this lesson would be to get rid of some of the practice games we had
Taralyn do on the white board and include harder problems for her to complete. For
example, we could briefly go into a new topic having to do with rationals such as squares
and perfect squares.
4. If we were to repeat this lesson with an ELL student of the same age, we would have to
truly make sure that the student understands what the words “rational” and “irrational”
mean, and then explain them in math terms. This lesson would be well suited for an ELL
student, as it is simply an introduction to rational and irrational numbers and it includes
mostly definitions and distinguishing between the two.