Team Microteaching Reflection:

As usual, time management is always an issue when it comes to teaching new lessons.  Although my group had an excellent lesson plan set up, there was simply too much to cover within the 15minute time span.  We were able to complete the main objectives in our lesson plan, but it was sort of a rushed job.  Majority of the group felt as if the introduction was way too fast for any student to follow and understand fully.  The group also said that they needed more time to understand and use the algebra tiles, which is understandable since it is a new concept to learn. 

Overall, everyone enjoyed our lesson and was able to learn multiple methods of factoring quadratic trinomials (algebraically, using algebra tiles, and the virtual manipulatives) and was able to see that factoring can be related to the concept of the area of a rectangle.  I find these microteaching lessons to be highly useful in showing everyone what teachers have to deal with when teaching a lesson, that not everything will go as planned and adjustments may be needed due to timing or the lesson being interrupted by a student's curious question.  I think that within a lesson plan, there should be spaces for teachers to mention when to create a 'check point(s)' to make sure everyone is paying attention and caught up with the lesson and just to confirm that the teacher isn't going too fast or slow for the student's understanding of the lesson.