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During the group microteaching, I've learned that planning a lesson and actually doing the lesson is very different, especially when co-teaching with others. What I imagined in my head how the lesson would go was definitely not how it ended up panning out to be. During the lesson, I think we ended up making it too lecture-y at the latter half because as I was walking around the class to check student comprehension, I could see that some people started looking bored and doing other things which was fair. Reflecting back, I think we should have allowed people to get into groups and try problems by themselves sooner. Letting them try it themselves instead of us force feeding them information would have been a better approach. Furthermore, figuring out roles for co-teaching was difficult because while one person is explaining things to the class, what exactly should the other teachers be doing? Maybe during the demo part, we could've each had a group of students to do the demo with?
Co-teaching is definitely a very different method of teaching that I have not thought about until this assignment so it was very difficult to figure out how to implement it. It is especially difficult when each teacher has a different teaching style too because styles can clash.
Good lesson, and thanks for the thoughtful reflections on what could make it better (and what you can take from this for future teaching). It is a different kind of experience to co-teach and co-plan -- one that takes some relationship-building with your co-teachers as you go! Good to try to avoid being too lecture-y and to let people have enough time to work things out through the activities you have designed. Good work.
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