Instructor Assessment for Microteaching Presentation

Name: Jon Zook

ExpectationsExceeding
ExpectationsNot Meeting
Meeting
Expectations

Plans effectively for instruction X

Provides effectively written lesson plan X
Organizes instruction effectively X
Provides clear direction and instruction
Engages peers in effective learning using X
appropriate instructional approaches
Communicates verbally effectively (tone, volume, X
expressiveness, grammar, language, etc.)
Communicates non-verbally effectively (gestures, X
expressions, eye contact congruence)
Self-assess the effectiveness of own teaching X
Demonstrates confidence, composure, and poise X
Comments: time: I enjoyed watching your lesson and it makes me interested enough to watch
a game, and although it is not likely something I want to try, I think would be appealing to
children and youth.
3 STARS 2 WISHES
Interesting introduction by connecting When using this (or any) video clip, (movie,
Lacrosse to the history of Canada and our etc.) set students up to get the most out of the
Indigenous peoples as well as talking about it viewing by being specific about what you
as Canada’s national summer sport, helps to want them to look for as they watch. That will
‘hook’ your students into wanting to engage help them to focus and have things to watch
in the learning. Additional information about for. We need to teach kids how to ‘watch’ and
the 2 types of lacrosse was interesting and as learn appropriately from this kind of resource
you narrowed it down to talk about box as they are engaged in so much unfocused
lacrosse as opposed to field lacrosse, it was viewing on their screens today.
an effective segue into the activity part of the
lesson. Don’t forget to introduce yourself in
this kind of situation although that would not
generally be necessary in a typical classroom
situation unless you are coming in as a
substitute or specialist teacher.
Provided a clear outline of what you planned Think about including some print support to
to cover in the lesson and then followed accompany your verbal explanations as this
through to cover areas you said you were will help you reach students who have a
going to teach. Very clear demonstration, all variety of learning styles. You could have
the motions you made were easy to see and to used a slide at the beginning to outline your
follow. Excellent use of the video clip of lesson, or at the end when you did your
famous player to demonstrate the more summary.
complex task of passing the ball. Once the
video clip was finished you took time to
review what had been covered and then
reinforced the skills with your own additional
demonstrations.
 Good volume and tone throughout the lesson,
you were knowledgeable and confident with
your content and in your presentation. The
movement and gestures you used throughout
were consistent with what you were sharing
orally.

Effective summary in which you reviewed

the key elements of your lesson, including the
historical significance and the importance of
sport, the need to grow the game. You also
summarized the 3 specific skills you
addressed in the lesson.
You refereed to a wide variety of other
resources that are available for players,
coaches and those interested in learning
more.
Self Assessment
2 STARS
Good recognition that finding the best way to
share the information is critical. This is
especially true if you know the content or
process well yourself, because you think that
if it is easy for you, it will be easy for
someone else to understand, and that is often
not true.
Although you appeared fairly confident in
your presentation, if you don’t feel confident,
then it is an important area to work on. In
teaching, we often tell student teachers to
‘fake it until you make it’ so at least acting
like you are confident is a good starting
place. You have some really good strategies
for working on your improvement goal. Try
and be a bit more specific with your timeline
for doing some of these things as you are
much more likely to follow through. (e.g.
instead of ‘talking with people I know in the
teaching profession” plan and book a time
with someone – I will schedule a lunch time
meeting with X during the week of June 20
and then make sure you follow through.
1 WISH
When you are writing about deviations from
you plan in the observation section, you need
to be more specific about what they were.
When you really start self-assessing your
teaching of lessons, you will often find that
the problems occur in the process and not just
the content, or the fact that you made an on
the spot decision to make a change is what
made the lesson effective (e.g. the change
could have been because of your ongoing
assessment of your students.- you may make a
change because you find they are not
comprehending and so you find a different
way to explain or demonstrate; they may be
showing that they are bored, so you make a
change; they may be losing control with their
behaviour so you make a change) If you don’t
have the details recorded you will have a more
difficult time of truly determining what went
right or wrong and setting an improvement
goal.