I think the micro teaching this time around went really well. I was confident throughout and the group members were engaged. I wrote a script for the lesson this time and even though I ended up not needing it, I was relieved that I had it if needed it. In terms of my voice, I was trying to be mindful of the other lesson going on in the classroom at the same time as ours but perhaps it would be a good idea to check with the students if they can all hear me so I can adjust in the moment.
Jasmine, Sahl and I chose "Binomial Distribution" as our micro teaching topic. Here is our lesson plan:
Here is the thinking task questions that we are planning to use:
Here is my mathematical work and thoughts while solving the Cistern Filling problem:
I found this reading to be very insightful. I have been teaching math for 2 years now and I have seen my students being stuck on a problem at least once a week. While I believe I did my best to convey the same ideas as mentioned in this chapter about "slowing down when in full flight" and "write what you know and want," I appreciate now the well phrased reasoning as to why it is important to do these things.
However, there were a couple of words in this chapter I did not quite understand in context, like RUBRIC writing and specialization. Perhaps it is because I have not read the previous chapters that I do not understand what Mason means by RUBRIC writing, but I would love to talk to my peers about it and know their thoughts. "Specialization" did not make sense to me because the word itself means having a mastery of something and the context was being stuck. Therefore, I had to remind myself of the context while reading this chapter.
What went well: People were engaging with the content, my materials were all prepared and ready to be used and I believe I organized the lesson appropriately.
What could be improved: I found myself in the middle of the guided practice time realizing that I forgot to mention that I encourage multilingual people to contribute words from their language. I also think I should have given members an outline of what were going to be doing before beginning the activity.
What I might do differently next time: I knew what I was going to say to introduce my lesson but I felt as though I was nervous until I got in the rhythm of teaching, so I would like to explore writing a script for my lesson that I can fall back on in such cases.
Here is my lesson plan that I will be following for our non-curricular micro-teaching activity in class on Monday!
I will be filling out the reflection section of this lesson plan after delivering the lesson.
