Group 1 - Your group encouraged social interaction between tables right away by asking us to collectively come up with words that are commonly misspelled. The next activity was a little more difficult. Not only was it hard to get students to participate in the spelling at the board, but a lot of students were apprehensive and didn't willingly volunteer because of their difficulties with spelling. This made the lesson harder because of long pauses between volunteer groups. Something that I thought could've been done was a run-down of the spelling rules and how they applied to the words that were given. Because having us address them after the words were spelled on the board didn't work as well. Another idea would be to give us the spelling rules and provide us with more commonly misspelled words.
Group 2 - I really enjoyed the visual aids and having all of the videos to show us each social norm. It was also good to have small and large group discussions about the videos and what could/should have been done differently. Another thing that could've been done was assigning each group a social norm and having us act them out. Or showing one video and having us choose a norm to act out similarly to the model (your original video) we were given.
Group 3 - It was good to be able to see 2 examples of a good and bad speech. I felt like the first exercise with the 2 phrases on the board weren't as beneficial as the rest of the lesson. It was confusing as to what we were supposed to do with those sentences. Something that may have helped would've been making the topic clear at the beginning, as many were confused about what we were actually being taught about. The questions that followed the examples and allowing us to provide our knowledge of public speaking were both really beneficial.
Group 4 - Addressing the age the lesson was targeted for was really important and it was good to see that done right at the beginning. I liked how interactive the lesson was. And some of the steps were modeled for us in the beginning through the Iowa example. If there had been more time/if it was a real classroom it would've been good to have the students look up all the information so they are finding it themselves. But I thought it was well planned for 2nd graders to be getting up in front of the class and speaking to prepare them for future classes where presenting is necessary.
Group 5 - Since you were teaching a foreign language lesson, it was good to see you asking us about our background and experience with Spanish. It was a really good basic lesson to teach students about one of the most important parts of foreign language. There wasn't a lot that I though could be changed other than adding more social interaction within the class. I liked how you broke down the lesson to something that was understandable and the rocket ship was something that we could connect to. There was also modeling when you said the pronunciations of the endings and had us repeat them.
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