Today in our group myself, Jana, and Heidi, gave a presentation on Cognitive Impairments. We titled our presentation as Intellectual Disability because we felt that was what it is mostly referred to now as we researched. Our lesson deliver went really well. I was surprised and happy with the participation that was reciprocated as we presented and we were able to do our presentation in a timely manner that was well organized.
The evidence we have of effective student engagement was we were able to watch them and see how they talked as groups, they shared thoughts with us and brainstormed strategies as we gave them points to guide their conversation. I loved how everyone thought about their comments and added to the lesson instead of distracting or getting off topic.
If I were to teach this lesson by myself, the only thing I would change would be that we would be able to go more in depth on each impairment that we talked about. I wanted to learn more about the every day life of each of these children. This wasn't any fault of a person in our group it was what we decided was most important that needed to be covered in regards to what we were already learning in class.
In my teaching I think time management and practice is an area of improvement. I had a lot more material prepared than I thought and I wasn't able to go into as much depth as I wanted to. I also took more time than the other girls as I tried to include the class in my topic and also a video. I need to learn how to practice beforehand so I know how much time I need to take on each topic I am teaching.
I would give our group a 10. We were able to apply the the materials to the class course as a whole, and show how they applied to the principles we have learned. We were able to leave time to discuss with the group and as a class and we covered different disabilities to show examples.
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