Teaching Project Reflection

                                                                                               

Your Name:  Mandy Hyde                  Instructional Strategy: Discovery and Inquiry Learning

Partner’s Name: Holly Ford                                                 Topic: Aggression and Violence

Take a few minutes to reflect on your experience preparing for your presentation.

1)   Provide rationales for your choice of activities. Why did you choose your activities? Did you consider other possibilities before deciding?

We chose the line activity because we believe that it makes you visualize how often violence occurs in many different schools. It is also a good icebreaker activity that people can relate to and it gets them talking. I also really like the Mean Girls video we used because mostly everyone has seen or heard of the movie and it shows girls being the bullies not just boys.

2)   Describe how you chose what role each presenter would play in the development and delivery of your presentation. What personal strengths did you consider in the process?

We wanted to each be represented equally when talking so we split everything up into two halves, but we switched off during the presentation to avoid it looking like we only did each half ourselves instead of working on it all together, which we did. Luckily, I have known Holly for long enough to be comfortable telling her if I think something else would work better than what we have and vice versa. We worked really well together making up activities, deciding on what clip to play, and giving our presentation.

Take a few minutes to reflect on your presentation experience.

3)   Describe how your presentation most accurately reflected the instructional strategy you used. What criteria of your teaching style did you address?  How might you have improved your presentation? 

I believe our presentation reflected our instructional strategy very well because we used feedback given from our peers to formulate discussion on what aggression and bullying could look like in the classroom, and how or what they would do about it if it were going on in their school or classroom. I think our topic was best done through discovery and inquiry learning because we used what our peers responded with to formulate our discussion.

4)   Reflect on your learners’ responses to your presentation. Use professional language to say why your project was received well by your audience. Then pick out at least three specific areas participants said you might consider changing for your next presentation and respond to each. Keep in mind that this is constructive feedback and you need not agree. What would you change, and why? 

According to our learners’ responses our peers really liked our line activity, our video clip, and our handout. I believe our project was received well by our peers because it was relatable and interactive. I feel like so often these kinds of projects can be a little boring and Holly and I did not want ours to come off that way, which is why we included the Mean Girls hook in the beginning.  Some of the things our peers critiqued us on are our pace and they would want some more real life examples to help them picture or learn how to handle more. I think I would change our pace also. I feel like I always get worried that I will not have enough information and be standing up in the front with nothing else to say and still have 5 minutes left, but I feel like this understanding will come more with time.