Reflection of Lesson Plan First Experience

Last week my partner Lauren Huebbe and I developed an assigned lesson plan to teach a chapter out of our UST 311 A textbook, Students Helping Students to our fellow peer mentors in-training. This experience allowed me to break the ice on creating, developing, and implementing a real lesson plan, and overall the lesson went very smoothly. After learning from Amy's lesson and meeting with Allie and Silas prior to the class, we were really prepared for what was to come with presenting to our peers.
        I feel very confident now in my ability to address a topic and find a constructive way to create a lesson plan while knowing that no lesson plan is fool proof or written in stone. One thing I took away from Amy's lesson was being able to ask a question then ask another question to the response of a peer in order to further the discussion and make more connections. One thing that Lauren and I were able to do that helped our plan was divide the group into two, and split up to each group in order to mediate the activity and answer any questions our peers had about the activity.
       I am glad that I decided to get our lesson plan out of the way early and set the tone for the rest of the lesson plans. I really enjoyed the experience it offered, and I learned a lot about myself and my presentation skills and what I need to work on. I am really looking forward to the other lessons and being able to learn and take away from what others bring to the table.