I feel that I exerted a decent amount of effort on preparing for the discussion. My partners and I met several times to work out what we all needed to do during the discussion. I found that we worked very well together, exchanging ideas and figuring out the best way to present the material. I think the area that myself and my group put the most effort into was trying to find a way to present the information that was not the two sided format that a number of the other groups used, that wouldn’t work well particularly with this content. The key thing that was the basis for the entire presentation was the Venn diagram that Nick came up with, we used that one slide to build everything else off of so it served as a nucleus that the whole presentation was connected to.
I think that the value of having us facilitating course content for are peers is firstly it gives us practice in giving lessons where we work on basic public speaking skills. Additionally it has us work on making lessons that are not just fact based, but concentrated on big ideas that students will be more likely to retain. It also gives us a chance to go a bit deeper and to look at how each of our peers responds to content, which provides insight into how others may take issues differently.
I think how discussing content with peers impacts my future teaching, by firstly giving good practice up in front of the room, I think this will put me more at ease in front of my own students because I personally feel it is much easier to go up in front of a bunch of high school students than in front of my peers. I think also discussing content with peers also gives me some ideas about how to structure my future lessons, they are able to assess and make comments on my lesson and give me tips on things to work on. I think that my future students ma y be less likely to be a honest of critics, so it is good to find out things that I need to work on right away.
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