Micro teaching - reflection

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In general I thought that our group did a relatively good job.  I had many takeaway's from our micro teaching but would like to point out just a few...

1) I think we had a lot of good content (definitely too much for just 15 minutes) and so we were happy with your suggestion to reduce the scope a bit.  Even after we paired it down a bit, I felt like we still had too much material.  My takeaway with this one is to really think about how much I can accomplish in a single lesson.  Especially if I add activities.

2) It would have been great if our group had had more time to coordinate the transitions and really go through the presentation - each person's role, activities, etc.   This seemed to be the area where our 'class' also seemed to think the our 'timing and pacing' were ok but not perfect.

3) More activities for the class - or better integration of activities with the presentation.   Personally, I forgot about activities until the very end as I was caught up in the content.  This is a good lesson for me personally as I think I will engage the class better with a related activity.  One of the activities we didn't get to was at the end of the presentation and it was a 'quiz' where students could look at 'fashcards' and provide answers to questions directly related to the topic.  

4) On a personal note, I was very nervous standing in front of the class.  I nearly forgot everything that I was planning to teach.  I found this micro teaching experience to be much more stressful than our first exercise where we demonstrate something that is inherently easy for us.  My takeaway from this point is to practice the material standing up, in front of a white board if possible.   

and finally...

5) Ellen and Vincent were amazing partners.  They are both so knowledgable and so helpful and so willing to work together as a team to get the work done.  This was a terrific experience for me personally as a group member.






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