Presentations are over!

Some may say that the worst is over, but for me I think this week was just the beginning. This week we had to present our lessons to our fellow classmates. After turning in our lesson plan I was slighty axious to present. One reason being, becuase I wanted to get it over with, and the other reason was because I wanted to see my work come to life! On the first day I must say that I was nervous, for a fear that I might have had to present on the first day. After the first day of presentations I wasn't nervous anymore because I had gotten a chance to see how others put their lessons together.

I ended up presenting on the last day which was good and bad. It was good because I had the whole week to prepare, and bad because it built too much anticipation for me to handle almost. When I look at the evaluation sheet, my musicianship was okay, if i had to give it a score Iwould say 4 becuase when I first began singing the song, I had the right notes, but towards the middle and end of the several times that I had to sing the song, I wasn't always singin the right notes. My leadership was great! I had good intensity, and I knew when to get loud and soft so that I didn't scare them. There was hardly any flaw in my preparations so in that part, I give myself all 15 points. As soon as I began to "teach" everything flowed as planned. It felt like my lesson plan was memorized. For the delivery portion of the presentation I think I deserve a 17 because although everything went well and I had a lot of energy, direction, and focus, I think I may have been talking to fast.

The most difficult part of the whole thing was presenting to my peers becuase the grade level of my lesson plan was kindergarten/1st grade. And although my peers were suppose to act as if they were in those grades, it would have been better if I taught to real k-5/1st grade students. I wish that i could have been more mindful of the notes as the class and I sang so that way my musicianship could have been better. And I had a secong chance i wouldn't really change anything in my presentation for the simpla fact that I think i did very well.