As an education candidate, I understand the importance of reflecting on my teaching. Within my lesson reflections, I have used the HUMAN developer framework to re-examine my teaching to ensure that I am reflecting on each important area of instruction. By using this framework, I am able to cite specific examples from the lesson and weigh the relative strengths of each. Within my Inch By Inch lesson, I reflected mainly on my classroom management. I discussed how I handled the issue of two students not wanting to work together. I had them both discuss with me instead to validate their feelings and ensure that a scene was not caused. This shows my strengths in thinking on the spot. I also weighed different strengths of how I knew that students met the learning objectives by seeing their pictures and reading their sentences that went along with them to compare and contrast their animals with one another. Compare and contrast is a standard that is focused on in multiple areas of curriculum for second grade, so I made sure to include it. This has allowed me to make a thoughtful and accurate assessment of a lesson's effectiveness and the extent to which it achieved its instructional outcomes. When reflecting, You must focus on things that were successful as well as areas to improve, reflection does not always have to be negative and I think that this is an important ideal to also pass on to students. No one is perfect, and everyone has room to grow. Being able to self-assess yourself and learn from experience is an important character trait that I strive to always have as an educator. Throughout my reflections, I am able to brainstorm different ways to improve my lesson and different strategies I can try in the future. Using a specific repertoire of skills, such as educational protocols and strategies to enhance student learning which I have learned during my time at WVSU, I can offer specific alternative actions, complete with the probable success of different courses of action. This can be seen within the reflections in my Cinquain Poem Unit Plan. For example, I discuss in Day 1 how I would have enhanced the lesson by doing more practice on the parts of speech used within a Cinquain Poem using a game. This was something the students needed to review as a whole, which in turn would have created a more effective lesson. During this lesson the power also went out, causing me to have to be flexible and respond to the situation in the moment. I reflect on this and how I handled the situation by changing the app used on their iPads to something that did not require a WIFI connection. This allows me to change my instruction in the future in order for a better outcome or higher achievement levels for students. These reflections allow me to model for my students how important self-assessment and reflection is. This follows the Reflective Theory established by John Dewey. This theory states that learning through experience can be a fundamental form of knowledge. This is because when we reflect on our actions, we are able to learn from them and problem solve to create new knowledge of how to react in the future. Being able to understand why choices you have made were successful or need some work is an important skill to model to students because they are able to contemplate their own actions.