The Right and The Wrong

In our groups today I thought we did a fairly decent job with the class. We are lucky to be assigned to such a class that has already matured enough to the level that they know when to stop and listen. Some things that we did that I liked are: When we read the story. This is always one of my favorite parts when we come visit because I love when the students get so into it. They really want to grasp the gist of the story... even when it's a bit over their heads. I also like that we always have atleast 2 people helping a group out. No one is left out of any of the activities that we do and that is important to making a successful lesson. Lastly, I like that we always ask the students essential questions about the lesson as we go through it. Its a good feeling to know that when they answer the questions correctly... WE taught them that.
But of course, with some good there must be some bad. Only a couple things bother me when we go visit the little kiddies. One of them is that we are always somehow unsure. We have the lesson plan... edited to perfection... but we always seem to stutter step in making a presentation. Though we eventually go through it and pass with flying colors, I think it would make our presentations better if we didn't hesitate as much as we do. Just one more thing that I don't like that we do is that we aren't so great with time. I mean, we get the lesson done and everything we were suppose to do... but I always feel rushed. And I don't like to be rushed. So maybe that's on me. These are the rights and wrongs we did on our visit today.

Improving Presentations

As an individual, I plan to help my group/team as much as I can. Everyone, including myself needs to always give in their fair share of work to make a presentation the best it can be. When we are presenting, it shouldn't matter if we like the topic or not, or if we have to work with people we don't like. We have to put the differences aside and do what we came to their classroom to do. Which is teach them a lesson worth knowing.
Some hands-on activities would also make a presentation really good. Considering they are children of very young age, they might also learn and understand better when lessons are being taught to them by showing and feeling. Instead of hearing and listening.
There is always room for improvement and people should not get discouraged as easily if things to do not go as planned.