On October 7th, Group A (New York and the New Nation) began teaching a class of third and fourth grade students in two group sessions. I was extremely nervous and it definitely showed. My knowledge of professional language went right out the window. I said "guys" at least five times in both sessions combined. Although I rehearsed my "lines" quite often- even while I was driving- my nervous nature overcame it. I spoke clearly but my lines became all jumbled up in my head and I didn't know where to begin!
Besides my poor performance, I think my group did fantastic with all the pressure they were under. The technology that was to be used in our direct instruction lesson was horrible; nothing worked at all! Our prezi was the main attraction to our lesson and we were thankful to get that to work. In order to improve the prezi portion of the activity, I think that we could have demonstrated how to take notes on an outline with the first one or two slides. We overlooked the fact that the students may have never been exposed to this type of activity before. We should better prepare our assessment of background knowledge not just regarding knowledge, but also regarding method of delivery.
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