Session 5: Unit Presentations

I really enjoyed listening to the unit presentations in class on Wednesday. I think that this kind of presentation is more valuable to me as a teacher than the LoTi presentations. I liked hearing the wide variety of ideas and thinking about how I can use them in my classroom. If they are not at my level, then I think about other teachers in my school that might be able to use the idea. Any sort of sharing activity is great for me because it gets me thinking. I start to adapt the ideas I hear to my situation or I pick out pieces that I can use in my classroom. I think a time limit might be a good idea for the presentations though because they have been taking up the entire class.

The LoTi presentation was a valuable activity in that it helped me understand what would go into a presentation I may have to make to a school board someday. I don't think it is as valuable to me, however, to hear the same information repeated several times. I do think it is important to do group presentations. It is a good skill to have, but maybe the presentations could be on different topics we don't have enough time to cover in class? That way we would still be "presenting", but we would be learning new information from the presentations.