Micro Teaching

Today I got to micro teach for the beginning of class. I was nervous to get up in the front of class but Dr. S was supportive.  The night before we sat on Google Docs for a good hour+ discussing how I should attack the lesson today.  She saw that I had used wordle to title a couple of my papers, so suggested that I could do a wordle for my micro teacher.  I took important words from week 5 of moodle and off the power point to put in wordle.  In order for the words to be big I had to write them over and over again. The word "science" was the biggest on my wordle and that's because I wrote it about 20 times.  Then I wrote the other words a different amount of times to make them different sizes but big enough to be seen on the board.  The color scheme is important because they have to be easy to see on the board.  There can't be anything dark so they should be bright and inviting.  When I got in front of the class I introduced the lesson by saying I created a word cloud, and asked my peers to pick out two words they knew.  Each person told me one word they knew off the board.  After everyone spoke I concluded the lesson by saying that the answers they had given me has proved that they know how to connect these words to everyday life, and that our class is about connecting the students life to science. Overall I felt like the lesson went well, and I'm so appreciative of how Dr. S helped me through the entire thing!


Below are the wordles I made for my micro teaching:

The video above is an example of micro teaching in the classroom.