Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sally-Self evaluation of the 1st teaching session, present 265 words

First and foremost, I want to say how impressed I was with all the presentations! I thought each group had well planned interactions and the ideas that each group left with the audience were really great. I enjoy this group and look forward to working with each one of you, in the future. Each one of you is bright, inspiring and just plain awesome!

Now, on to the self evaluation--
I felt my presentation lacked some oomph and should have been better organized. I should have been more specific in my directions to the group. I also should have worked more closely with my partner in deciding was going to be done. I think I was so focused in getting all the parts completed, that I didn't discuss things fully enough with my partner. This left room for "winging it," which can really go south quickly! Understanding that a successful lesson is taught when things are well planned and extra organized is probably one of the reasons that we were so limited in the amount of prep time.

I should have put more time into planning and practicing what was to be presented, instead of assuming that I knew was what was going to happen. I think we did plan interesting activities that got the students engaged in the lesson and asked for a lot of student participation, which was one of our goals.

I hadn’t really thought through the introduction well, and will plan on preparing it differently so that the next time, I present a more polished image to the group who are the “students.”

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