Group Microteaching Reflections

Summary of Comments

   The comments we received were mostly positive in nature.  The majority really liked that we attempted a Jigsaw approach to this topic.  One comment I really liked is that the approach made a potentially dry topic more fun.  The class felt that we did a great job of organizing the groups and having something different and interesting for each group to do.  The biggest critique we had was the lack of time at the end for the original group of three to report back to each other.  On a personal note, my voice was too quiet at one point when I was attempting to not talk over my teammates.

Personal Reflection

   I really enjoyed doing this micro-teaching lesson with Michelle and Debbie.  It was very interesting discovering the different historical applications of the Pythagorean Theorem.  I really wanted to be a part of each of their groups to learn more about what they had discovered.  I would absolutely use an approach like this with a class of my own to make the learning of the history and modern applications a fun activity.  I would probably extend the activities at each station so that they would expand on the information we only briefly touched on.  The one thing I would make sure to improve would be the amount of time that the original groups of three had to debrief with each other.  I would also include a longer time of class debrief.  Overall an enjoyable activity.