Strategy Lesson Reflection

I think that our strategy lesson, front loading with images, went fairly well. I think that Maegan and I worked well as a partnership. We both contributed equally to the power point, notes sheet, and lesson plan. We both spoke equally and contributed to the group discussion and overall presentation. Another thing that went well was engaging the class in group discussion. We used the turn and talk strategy deliberately so that the students could participate in a low stakes partner discussion before we brought the whole class into the discussion. We also planned who was going to talk about which slides, how long the students got to discuss, how long students had to read the article, planned questions to ask about each slide. Mostly everything that happened, we had planned for.

Although many things went well, there is one main thing I would do differently. During our group discussion, Caroline brought up the idea of starting with an abstract picture and then move to more concrete pictures. I think that this was a wonderful idea and one that I would implement if I had to teach this lesson again. Many of the picture we showed were very similar (mountainside, ski slope, slide, staircase), but in the future I would add maybe a picture of slope on an actual graph. I think that showing only pictures of slope in the real world creates a disconnect between material and application. If I only ever show them slope in the real world, students may not realize what slope looks like on a mathematical graph.

An unexpected challenge I faced was presenting to people my age. Presenting to my peers is very nerve racking for me and I was very anxious going into this presentation. However, I think that the success of this strategy lesson helped me come out of my comfort zone.

Overall, it was fun, and I REALLY enjoy this particular strategy J

Kaylie Herbert

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