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My Microteaching Experience

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 After 3 days of 90-minute classroom instruction, I was able to experience almost absolute failure, to a great comeback, to a final amazing lesson. I found this experience so helpful for me as it allowed me to experiment in a real classroom with real students and gave me a great setting to really understand how next spring is going to go.                How did this experience start out on the wrong foot? I walked in Monday afternoon with my head held so high, my lesson plan in hand, expecting a flawless lesson. It was going so well until about 20 minutes in, we had just finished my interest approach and I looked down at my lesson plan and noticed that what I had on paper was not making sense to me. All the planning and prep I had done before walked right out the door on me and I was lost and circling for answers and got very nervous. Instead of struggling and suffocating for the next 70 minutes, I decided to...