Teaching experience: Other Health Impairments

• How do you feel about your lesson delivery and why? Was it effective, why or why not? 

I feel really good about our lesson. I feel that we both really understood the topic and that we did our best to help the class learn it. We also included activities, case studies and had everyone involved. Something that we also did really well was to use real life circumstances to help the class know how they would react as teachers, and what they could do to help their students

• What evidence do you have (while delivering your lesson) of effective student engagement? 
• Part of the evidence we had was that we had many different learning opportunities that required each group to discuss, some of which required that the group members alternate in reading case studies, overall causing everyone to participate. Each group also had to share with the class what their group discussed and decided on. 

• If you were to teach this lesson by yourself, not in a group, what would you change and why? 

If I were to do this by myself I actually don't think I would change very much, there was only two of us so it allowed us both to share all our ideas and to work together. This meant that everything I wanted to do and would have done by myself was done in our group presentation.  

• What could have been an area of improvement in your teaching? 

Something that I realized could have been better about our teaching was to give more background information about the topics before doing the activities. We had decided that the case studies would have been solved too easily without effort if we had explained each category first but because we did the activities first people may have felt more confused.  

• Based on the criteria for the “Teaching Experience” in the above instructions, would you give your group a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why?  AND would you give yourself a 0, 5 or a 10?  Why? 
• I would absolutely give our group a 10 and I would give myself a 10 because the teaching we did was very thorough, interesting, informative and involving. We spent a lot of time making sure that we "taught" the class instead of just "presented". We really did use teaching everyone and kept it interesting. Through the use of our case studies and different activities we had people really thinking and working as a group. I think this was a good method because it made people really get involved to try to learn the material. Also as a side note; our slides were very engaging with pictures and information.