Sec. 3 Week 6 Padlet Response by Kristen White

green16m — 2025-09-29 16:41:23 UTC

I took a video of my micro teaching online because I was sick. Overall, I think my activity went very well. I made sure I was very familiar with the activity and how to teach it before doing it. My sister who was my student during this activity understood my directions and knew what to do when I asked. If I were to do this activity with Kindergarteners and I would find lower syllables animals and foods to do this activity. I feel as if the bigger syllable foods and animals would be harder for young children to remember how many syllables are in the animals when matching.

EllaDuran2 — 2025-09-29 16:45:22 UTC

I think my mini lesson went well. The "students" enjoyed doing a lesson that had images and getting to have their own word board and images to use. I gave a demonstration as I gave directions, which allowed my audience to understand the activity that was being done. I think the only thing I would do differently is to have the images labeled, since some of them are unclear about what they are pointing to.

2025-09-29 16:45:32 UTC

I think one thing I did well in my microteaching was repeating the words and sounds several times so students heard the sounds we were looking for. I made sure I was really clear and emphasized the rhyme that was being tested. I asked my "students" questions about what the image was we were viewing so they too said the rhyme sound and told me yes or no if the word belonged in the rhyme house. One thing I might do differently next time is have the students place the cards themsleves instead of placing it for them.

morco1hm — 2025-09-29 16:46:52 UTC

I think my activity went well they understood the instructions very clearly. As well as them being at a word level grade for 'students' to understand. One thing I would do differently was my thing was sorting long and short a's and I didn't have them read it back to me to have practice saying, so I would have them do that next time. But overall it went well.

2025-09-29 16:50:32 UTC

One thing I think I did well with my lesson was sounding out the words with the students to make sure they were hearing the correct phonemes. One thing I think I could do better is to demonstrate one before I had them doing it.

lutz1g — 2025-09-29 16:52:39 UTC

I thought I did a good job of making sure each "student" was able to understand each image that was on their card. Some of the images for the cards were confusing and it made it difficult to decipher what part of the word was changing. If I were to redo this lesson, I would make sure the cards were of images that are easily recognizable to students. I would potentially create my own set of cards using things around the classroom so it's even more recognizable to students.

snead1a — 2025-09-29 16:55:36 UTC

I think that my micro-teaching lesson went well. My instructions were clear and we were able to complete the lesson successfully. One thing that I did well was use the I do, we do, you do model. One thing that I can do differently is address the words that students may get confused on.

2025-09-29 16:56:19 UTC

One thing I think I did well was keeping the group together and mixing up the work they did together. I liked that they worked together and they would communicate with each other.
If I would teach this again, I would give both students a different pile and allow them to teach each other. This allows for them to communicate with each other and wouldn't need a teachers' help.

2025-09-29 17:13:34 UTC

I think my mini lesson went well. The "students" enjoyed doing a lesson that had images and getting to have their own word board and images to use. I gave a demonstration as I gave directions, which allowed them to understand the activity that was being done. I think the only thing I would do differently is to have the images labeled, since some of them are unclear about what they are pointing to.

PaigeWalters3 — 2025-09-29 17:43:47 UTC

I enjoyed doing my mini lesson with classmates. I think that I could have made my instructions a bit more clear and explained the meaning behind this, but when in a classroom this lesson would also stem off of prior teaching so this is an easy fix for the future. I think that I did a good job of giving time for my peers to finish working on each part, and hearing them speak as well. I think I could also work on including different visuals and pieces to work with in this to make it more creative for the future.

young3mj — 2025-09-29 17:55:29 UTC

I think that my micro-teaching lesson went very well. I feel like I did a good job keeping my students on task and explaining the activity to them. If I were to do this activity again, I would help them along the way by counting the syllables with them. I would also shuffle the cards better so that they have a greater variety of syllables as they go along the board.

tatermonkey1234 — 2025-09-29 17:58:08 UTC

I think I made the “students” excited to learn and do the activity. I also think I presented it in a good, exciting way to keep kids engaged. I could have done better facilitating if I had more than one group going at a time, or reviewed the sounds better beforehand of digraphs and diphthongs.

taylorroth0420 — 2025-09-29 18:07:34 UTC

One thing that I did well during my micro-teaching demonstration was explaining the lesson well and making sure that the students knew what they were doing. If I were to teach the same lesson again, i would spend a little longer demonstrating it and break down the demonstration based on the grade level. Since my demonstration was based on alphabet knowledge, I would include letter sounds, rather than just naming the letter.

2025-09-29 20:14:59 UTC

I felt like I explained the activity decently well. I feel I did a good job keeping them on task. I feel like if I were to do this again, I would review the words better beforehand so I knew the correct answers since some of them I was a little caught of guard on. Overall I feel like it went very well.

marti10t — 2025-09-30 00:32:25 UTC

I believe that I did a good job at demonstarting my microteaching lesson. I was able to use language that represented such used in a classroom setting. I think something that I could have done differently if I had to teach the lesson again, would be to practice more with what I would want to say to students. I think that factor would have given a more realistic reenactment of my acting as a teacher and my group resembling the students.

2025-09-30 13:10:31 UTC

I think my lesson went well, I liked how interactive the sound bag game was. You can make it a competition or just a way to study. I think it would be cool to have kids use real items around the room to put in the bag. I think the only thing different I would do is have it with a larger group instead of two people.

mackenziemalette2 — 2025-09-30 15:42:11 UTC

I did my mini lesson with my roommate because I was sick. My activity allowed the "student" to see the images and be able to organize them with each category. The activity went well, and my roommate didn't have any trouble understanding my directions. I think the activity went very well and I would definitely consider using this activity in my future classroom.

2025-09-30 18:31:00 UTC

My lessons went well in terms of it being interactive and hands-on. My lesson involved the students in looking for rhyming words. Each student had a picture, and they had to match it to the picture on the rhyme board. This way, each student was always doing something during the activity.
If I were to teach this lesson again, I would make my own rhyming cards. The cards/pictures that were in the lesson were confusing and hard to identify. If I did this lesson again, I would make my own cards to make sure students understand what the cards mean.

2025-10-05 02:26:27 UTC

I believe that I did a good job explaining the activity of the microteaching demonstration. I do think that something I would've done differently is that I should've found different ways to incorporate phonemic awareness into the activity. I also think that I should've written down an answer key to help guide myself throughout the lesson. Lastly, I should've found ways to make the lesson more engaging.

willowch — 2025-10-07 00:03:40 UTC

I liked how I asked the students how to spell different words, and then they got to move that number of spaces on a board game. I loved how collaborative and hands-on this activity was for students. I also loved seeing a different lesson presented, as well as different teaching styles. If I were to do it differently, I would probably use a board game that my students are interested in. I would also let students partner up instead of facilitating it for the students, so that they can compete against one another and turn it into a game.