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Reflections on Group Micro-Teaching

I think overall the lesson went well. I liked the arithmetic sequence topic because we could connect students' prior knowledge of patterns to this new topic and have some group activity that could engage them in constructing and solving arithmetic sequence problems. The team cooperated well and planned the lesson collaboratively. We went over almost everything we prepared, and I think the lesson was enjoyable. Yet, we had some comments on time management and collaboration of the actual lesson. Due to lack of time management, the activity was quite short. If we had enough time for the activity part, we would have done some more arithmetic sequence problems. I also felt it was hard to fit all the important elements of lesson into 15 minutes. Overall I really enjoyed the group teaching experience.

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