Reflection of Origami Microlesson

Summarizing my peer's evaluation of my lesson:

From my microlesson, the summary and post-tests were too rushed due to the lack of time. For the participatory event, instead of each person taking a turn and then testing it, perhaps each student should have a sheet of paper and participate in folding the crane. As well, it was a bit hard to just let students learn by looking at others doing the steps. Though my explanation of the procedure is clear, I must consider the timing and if a crane may be too complicated to fold in 10 minutes or not. One thing that I didn't notice before was my behaviour. It is good that I have nice eye contact and am friendly, but I use the word "so" too much and need to get rid of that "pause" word.

Write up of my own evaluation of lesson:

I believe that the structure of my lesson and the way I flowed through the BOOPPPS went well. I realize I enjoy telling others about the history of what I'm teaching to others a bit first and it was good that my peers were interested in it. I'm happy with the participation my colleagues had when doing the post test and it was a good way for me to assess how much they learned from the lesson and where I may need to be more clear in instructing my students.

However, if I were to reteach the lesson, I would definitely need to consider how to manage my time better and figure out a way to teach this lesson within the 10 minute time span. As well, even if my time was coming up, next time, if I was short on time- I would not rush my summary and instead, I would tell them the summary and perhaps only have them fold up to half a crane in the post test. Another thing I would have ready would be a diagram with the instructions put up for students that may prefer to learn from paper rather than an instructor or for people that already know how to make certain basic steps of origami. It is beneficial for students to be able to have alternative ways to learning. Finally, to save time, I should keep my introduction less short so I could get into origami folding more quickly!

From my peers, I believe we all agreed that time management is something I need to improve on. Though it is important to go at a pace where students can keep up with, I will then need to be more selective on what I want to teach. As well, though I never realized it before, I have replaced all my "uhm" with "so", and I should get rid of use that word in my oral vocabulary more often.

In summary, though there are many things I need to work on, a few that I will try to improve on first would be my timing and selection of what material to go on. To incorporate more methods of learning during my lesson. And finally, correcting my vocabulary.

Instrumental Understanding vs. Relational Understanding