VISUAL IMPAIRMENT GROUP REFLECTION

1. I feel like our lesson delivery went well because as a group we established goals and objectives, then individually planned our portion to meet those expectations. For my specific part, I think teaching about a real-life classroom situation was very effective because it allowed our peers to actually apply what the other stations discussed and put it to the test. I chose to design my station like this because a classroom simulation is the most helpful and useful for me to solidify the information that has been conveyed by my peers. I think teaching everyone about things to do and to avoid in a classroom environment is very effective because they will know how to assist students that are suffering with Visual Impairments.

2. The evidence I saw of effective student engagement, while I was delivering my lesson was when students were making comments about the things I did wrong during my purposefully bad model example of teaching. Through the things that they pointed out, I was able to identify that they were understanding what NOT to do. When we reversed roles and I had the students in each group come together as a collaborative group, they were very effective with re-designing the classroom to make it easier for students with visual impairments to learn in a formal classroom situation. Each student in every group was very engaged in how they could work together in order to help students that have visual impairments.

3. If I was teaching this same subject independently and not affiliated with a group, I honestly wouldn't change very much at all because I thought we did a wonderful job of teaching the many different aspects of visual impairments and made it virtually as interactive and hands-on as possible. For me personally, this is how I learn best and we decided as a group that we would teach the most important aspects about this disability and teach in a very realistic and effective way that would help everyone in our class know how to best help students with visual impairments in their future classroom environment.

4. There were several areas of improvement in my teaching, specifically:
-Writing an agenda on the white board so people could remember what came next
-Giving clearer directions
-Having a black white board marker ready to use
-Printing out and laminating specific instruction in a LARGE font to have as an example of what we can use to display curriculum information for our visually impaired students.

5. I would give our group the score of 10 because we first met as a group several weeks prior to when we had to present in order to assign everyone different parts of our project and what we wanted to accomplish. We collaborated very effectively because we communicated our mutual goals and made it happen!! I would also give myself a 10 because I adequately completed my portion of our group assignment and did my absolute best to provide our peers a valuable classroom simulation of what it would be like to have students that are suffering from visual impairments in their individual classrooms.