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Group Micro Teaching Feedback

Reflection on Feedback for my group micro-teaching on Grade 10 Foundations and Pre-calc: The difference of Squares













Reflection


Overall, I was quite pleased with how our lesson went. I felt like Leah and I came up with a creative and memorable way of introducing the concept of the difference of squares, and I think our presentation of it went quite well. Our biggest problem was time - we had much more material planned than we ended up having time to cover, and because of that, towards the end of the lesson we got a little bit rushed.

Reading through the feedback from my peers, there were a couple pieces that stood out to me. Arthur pointed out that it's a little bit confusing that our worksheet asked for the area as well as the side lengths, when it was the side lengths alone that led to the proof. This was really great feedback for me. While designing the worksheet I thought that computing the area would be helpful in getting students thinking about computing area using the variables a and b (which is how they would construct the final proof), but it seemed it may have been more confusing than helpful.

Peter and Devon suggested that we could have given time to work examples individually, which was good feedback! This is something we intended to do, but ran out of time. This tells me again that I really need to work to get a better sense of how long things take, and make sure I leave room in my lesson plans for adequate time for practice.

I really appreciated the feedback from my peers, and the chance to teach a mini-lesson. I also loved getting to see everyone else's lessons - there were some wonderful and creative ways of teaching concepts that I wouldn't have thought of, and I was grateful to have the chance to learn from my peers!











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