Purpose: This assignment is intended as an opportunity for you to reflect on your teaching skills after teaching a small-sized lesson your peers.

Developing your idea: Think about something simple to teach. You don't have much time (10-20 minutes). Teach something that you know pretty well (a good rule for both you and your students is: don't try to learn something new and perform it at the same time). Your style is up to you. Your strategies are up to you (bad choices here will not hurt your grade, so take a chance if you want). You can teach with a direct instruction strategy, an inquiry model, an indirect model (but you will have time problems there probably), a discovery model, or a hybrid - you choose. Your peers can act as students of any age/grade level. It's your class.

Requirements:

1. Develop an informal lesson plan. This should be the actual piece of paper that you use to guide yourself through the lesson. This can be in any format that you choose, in any type of language that you choose. Include a few of the objectives that you want your learners to achieve, but the rest is up to you. Plan the way that makes the most sense to you (i.e., in one of the formats we have discussed, chronologically, in an outline, etc.) (10 pts. a quality effort is all it takes here- plan for you, not me).

2. Teach your lesson to a small group. Be the teacher. Really teach. Shoot for about 10-20 minutes of teaching. Then, when you are done, be a student/professional and gather feedback from your group. This will include written feedback from your partner. (10 pts.)

3. Develop a two page reflection on your teaching. In it answer the following questions:

· what do you think you did well in your lesson?

· did you see evidence that your audience learned?

· after discussing your lesson- was your format a good match for your content?

· what would you change if you did it again?

(10 pts.)