A Day of Teaching

In our class, we were divided up into groups and given topics to teach our classmates about. My group taught of Speech and Language disorders and I was asked to reflect on our teaching.

I had a lot of fun getting prepared for our lesson. Speech and Language is something that I am passionate about and love researching and learning new information on this topic. I worked many years ago as a speech paraprofessional and found that this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I realize the value of speech and language and how important early intervention can be. I hope that this is something that I will be able to do as I continue my education.

My teaching reflection:

I feel that I did well on delivering my part of the lesson. I do not believe that I was perfect at teaching, but I did enjoy learning and sharing what I learned with my class. I feel that even though I was a little bit nervous, I was able to get most of what I had planned to teach across to the students. I believe our teaching was affective through the activities we had planned. I passed out tongue depressors so our class could use them to while speaking to a partner. I wanted them to feel a little bit of what it might be like to not be able to move your tongue in the right way when speaking. Many students expressed frustration and embarrassment. I believe that activities like those help to bring the lesson to life and help those learning to be able to remember the lessons and what they were about.

I really believe that the students were actively engaged during our lesson. I noticed that many students were asking questions and sharing personal stories with our class during our lesson. They also seemed to enjoy our simulation activities.

I do not think that I would have done too much differently while teaching, but I would have liked to make the handout different. I wanted to include more information and felt like a lot of information was missing.

To improve in my lesson I would have liked to be more engaged in discussion with the students. I could tell they had a lot to say, and I did not feel that I gave them enough time to talk and reflect on certain topics. I believe that much of our lesson would have been discussion if we did not have a time limit.

I feel overall our group did well. To rate our teaching based off a 0, 5, or 10 is difficult because I do not believe that we were a perfect 10, but I feel that we were closer to a 10 than a 5. We met together a few times before we taught and all worked together to figure out what we would teach and how we would teach it. I feel that I would rate myself the same as my group. I figured out our assimilation activities and tried really hard to make the lesson exciting and engaging. I put a lot of thought and work into the lesson and was very excited to teach my classmates what I had learned.