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Reflection: The three of us worked well together as a team to deliver this microteach. However, as our peers unanimously agreed upon, we had far too much content for 15 minutes. Each of us rushed through our allocated five minutes, which resulted in us brushing over important teachable moments. For me, I missed the opportunity to answer "my students" in the concerns they had in doing the example problems before approaching the more challgening ones. For this microteach we learned our own lesson, that less is more. We could have preserved the learning outcomes but focused on one example for each of the three segments of the session.
Thanks Karishma, Jeff and Zach! I really like the many interesting elements you have brought into this lesson, including the beading traditions, COVID news connections (this one has been on my mind too!), and the salary question. Excellent combination of direct teaching and problem solving!
ReplyDeleteI think you might have more material here than will actually fit into a 15 minute lesson, though this would be a great longer lesson with Grade 8s. Think ahead to how you might shorten things if necessary. But very cool lesson!
Thanks for the thoughtful commentary too, Jeff.
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