TEACHING REFELCTION

I believe that our group presentation for Autism went very well. We were able to have solid information and had multiple ways to teach it to allow for better understanding. I believe that we had so many activities and so many different components that our presentation was effective.

Students were actively engaged in the presentation because we asked questions, we had handouts for each student to look over and take notes on, and we also brought an in-class activity that they could do or work with while we were presenting. We also put all of our information on a PowerPoint to allow for more than once sense to be present while the class was learning, which increases knowledge understanding.

If I was teaching the lesson by myself one thing that I would change is the way that the case study was done. For our group we read out of the book, I feel as though choosing to do a case study that we have experienced ourselves allows others to feel that it is more real and relatable and even easier to understand because of the connections. Before we presented I worked on memorizing my information to allow me to not have to worry about reading from the slides and sound better instead of sounding like a robot. Something that I could have improved on is understanding and memorizing the material more so I didn’t even have to read from my notecards. I would give both my group and I a 10. We worked hard on understanding the information, we divided the responsibilities so everyone had an equal say and factor in the presentation, and we spent time outside of class discussing what needed to be done. I would give myself a 10 because I worked hard to get the information that I had and I spent time outside of class trying to comprehend my information better and trying to remember so I didn’t have to read from the slide and appear more professional.