Disater lesson

Today I taught a lesson that was a total disaster.  I had my lesson plan and I knew all the standards I was going to teach to and I knew my objective and how I was going to assess it.  What I didn’t have that I needed was a script.  What I really needed was a 15 minute script explaining functions and function notation.  It was a meandering, disjointed ramble.  I had the key points I wanted to hit on my plan in  outline form but apparently it was too vague. It only took my CT a few minutes to make constructive criticism that allowed me a period of another subject to write a detailed script and saved the following two classes from my disaster.  I am going to always cue myself to consider a script especially for something new like function notation.