Overall, I feel that the group microteaching was successful. I really enjoyed lesson planning for the lesson and coming with my own resources to use while we were teaching. Lesson planning really helped me prepare for how I wanted the lesson to go. I felt like the lesson ended up coming off as a bit of review since we were asking the students for definitions, rather than teaching them the definitions. In the future I want to work on incorporating more interactive activities that are not just practice problems. I also want to work on my confidence in the classroom, because I doubted myself during the lesson when I was teaching how to calculate the median when there are two numbers in the middle, and because I doubted myself I messed up the instruction and taught something that was incorrect.
Good reflections on this very good lesson, Nandini. (And notice how those of you teaching were much harder on yourselves than your peers were...!) I appreciate your ideas for making the lesson better, and from the point of view of a listener/ student, I thought it was already successful in many ways!
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