Microteaching+4-+Helmsing

Microteaching #4 Lecturing 10/31 & 11/2

(1) On Monday, 10/31, Mark delivered a rather dry lecture that followed a PowerPoint listing of several acts from the British Parliament in the 1760s and 1770s many historians point to as causes that led to the outbreak of war between the Colonists and the British empire. With your group, design an outline suitable for explaining these seven Parliamentary Acts from 1763-1776 and how they were partly responsible, as a whole, for leading up to the First and Second Continental Congress and the beginning of the Revolutionary War in America. Improve upon Mark's lecture, PowerPoint, and handout by thinking of ways to make the content less "dry" and more easily understood and accessible.

(2) Choose a topic of interest to you that you envision one day teaching in a 45 minute course (at the high school or middle school level; your choice of social science discipline and unit). Design an outline to accompany a 15 minute lecture (assuming you have 5 minutes for a Bellringer/Hook, 15 minutes for a lecture, 20 minutes for Guided/Independent Practice/Assessment, and 5 minutes for Wrap-Up/Closure). What will your 15 minute on the topic of your choice look like? For **Microteaching #4//,//** do the following:
 * prepare an outline (share this on your personal wiki page - and save a copy for your PPP)
 * prepare to present your 15 minute lecture using ONLY the whiteboards and/or handouts (no laptops/overhead projectors)
 * prepare a handout and bring 5 printed copies of your handout for your students to use in your microteaching
 * the hand-out can be an outline with parts to fill in, a table/chart, open-ended questions, a diagram, etc

FEEDBACK/COMMENTS/QUESTIONS

I really enjoyed MIcroteaching on Wednesday! I think that it went very well for my group and from other peer's comments that it went well for their group as well. I think it was a positive learning experience for me and I really appreciated the feedback from my group on my teaching to help me improve for the future. -Becki Farquhar

I personally think I did my best job in this microteaching. I am not sure exactly why I did better in this microteaching but I think it was a combination of things. First of all, I am becoming more comfortable in how I as a teacher should speak and talk although I did seem to revert to presentation mode somewhat in the microteaching. At the same time I felt the nature of lecturing made it not only easier for me but easier for everyone else too. It was easier in terms of planning because we knew all we had to do is talk, relate the content, and know our content instead of creating an activity. For me its creating the activity that seems to be the hardest and since we didn't really have to do that in this microteaching it was easier. That said I think that I also get caught up in the creation of the activity and as a result my teaching of the lesson itself suffers. I learned that an effective lesson does not necessarily require an elaborate activity but can be straight forward with a simple activity and be so much more effective. - Michael Perry