Micro Teaching Reflection

For our teaching of the Pythagorean Theorem, I feel it goes on well over all. It also needs improvement on many areas. We start with a real life application (ladder problem) and ask the students to think about how to solve it. Most feedbacks show that they like the intro/bridge. Some students hope the topic to be more clear and suggested writing the topic on the board after the introduction. Good idea! Then we use visual prop to prove the theorem geometrically. Students, especially visual learners, like it this way because they can see why this theorem is true by themselves. Some students feel the proving part is a little bit rushed. They wish it was discussed more thoroughly. Most students like the game we provided. But some students do not have a chance to fully participate in because we only have one sheet for each group. Next time we need to provide more. Some students notice the discrepancy of policies among three of us: allow using the ruler to measure the triangle or not. We need more communication among us beforehand. We wrap up the teaching with the solution to the ladder problem and summary. Students like the way we finish it. However, they do mention that terms like “orthogonal” needs some explanations.