My group consisted of Trefor Jones, Emma Smits, and myself. We randomly formed our group, which made me extremely nervous. 1.) I hate group work; it usually ends up being more sour than sweet and 2.) While I feel I can work well in a group, I know I am more efficient working on my own with a lot less stress. However, the group came together nicely and was really efficient in the planning process, granted we invested a lot of trust to each other to come up with our parts and be ready, since we didn't do more than an outline. I picked chapter 4 for our group, and it wasn't as delightful as a read as I thought it would be, but that's irrelevant seeing as I have distaste for the book anyways. The chapter was somewhat thought-provoking though.
I felt that the group chemistry worked really well throughout the presentation, until I had my toes stepped on and my fellow classmate started taking over my part of the presentation. This caused me to flare up, which makes it hard to focus, but of course this is something one has to learn to deal with when cooperating with others, so I tried to brush it off and reclaim my part without being too noticeable. I really hope as a future teacher that I don't have to do team-teaching in my classroom. Not to say that I can't, but simply I don't care to.
I'm embarrassed that none of us caught the fact that graded schools were addressed wrong. Durrrrrr. It would have been helpful if we divided up our review beforehand and made sure that we were responsible for that part of the review, however we did it right beforehand and I expected to be responsible for only my two. As with group work, you can never just be responsible for your part, because usually another part is deficient in some way and you have to pick up slack. Slap to my own hand.
The critique was bearable. We had a lot of positives and many things I would have considered negative weren't listed, true to self, I (in general) am my harshest critic. As far as volume was concerned, I'm not surprised that we weren't loud enough, with the exception of me. My voice tends to carry and I've always been known as a loudmouth, whether it be the room or whatever, I thought that generally my voice was loud enough, but I guess that's something to check for, although generally someone in your class will say "Speak up! We can't hear you." I hate how critical we are when it comes to interactivity. I mean come on, you want something engaging, and different from the last groups, and yeah it's a large class, and we have limited resources and space, so accommodate the criticism. I'm really anti-criticism, even though I know it can be a valuable tool.
So, what did I get from this exercise? I don't want to teach technology specific classes and I don't want to teach college kids. Yes, I want to incorporate technology and review my teaching so that I can keep refining my methods and plans to better my students' education.
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