Individual Response to Team Discussion and Assessment

1. What are two things you would do differently if your team had the opportunity to give your presentation again?

2. What did you learn about yourself as a teacher through this process (from planning to implementation through self assessment)?

That, no matter how prepared you are, and how much you plan out exactly what you're going to down the minute, that anything can happen and you have to prepare yourself for anything to happen. The discussions during our presentation took a lot longer than we had originally planned, leaving us with needing to shorten other things to fit it into the time slot. So, you can plan everything you need to do and prepare every document and presentation and still not be 100% ready, because really anything can take longer or shorter, or go completely differently than you planned. 

3. What are three (or more) teaching concepts that you learned through this that you hope to use in your future teaching?

This was my first real time using team teaching, and that's something that I really want to use in my future classroom. I love the idea or working with other teachers and combining subjects so that kids can have an enriching lesson about more than one subject. I also learned about managing classroom discussions. I've never had to manage a classroom discussion before, and I want to have a really deep discussion classroom so, being able to facilitate one was really useful to what I want to do in my classroom in the future. Collaborative preparation was also something that I think was really useful and really fun to do to, everyone in my group had their own ideas and brought something new to the table and those discussions were part of my favorite process of this whole presentation.