Giving my presentation was sort of fun in a way, but it was difficult as well.  I had a plan.  In my living room, the presentation went smoothly; twenty minutes, start to finish.  When I got to school, I practiced in the empty classroom.  The presentation went perfectly.  The thing that I did not account for was the nervousness.  I knew I would be a little nervous, that is why I practiced.  In the end, though, I did not account for the fact that my brain would go blank as soon as I started, that everything would become muddled in my brain for a few minutes.  It was weird, because the befuddlement lasted for only a few minutes, but it threw everything out of kilter in a way.  It took a while to recover and then I felt rushed.  In reality, there was no rush.  There was time.  It all came out in the end.  I think that in the future, this experience will pay dividends, because I will account for an initial nervousness, a winded feeling, and give myself time within the timing of the lesson to settle down.  I will expect a rough start and just relax into it and wait for it to dissipate rather than being all stressed out about it.  It was a good experience all in all. 

 I think that my plan was good, the packet came out exactly as I had hoped.  I think that because I have never had to plan a lesson or execute a lesson, the timing was the most difficult part.  Facing people in a real situation was difficult as well, but once the jitters left me, it was all good.  Thanks to everyone who joined in and contributed to the lesson.  That participation was very helpful.  The fact that the packet worked out as I had planned that it would, as it did for me when I did my own analysis, was very important to me. 

 All of the lessons that we have learned in this class seem to be effective.  I think that what they do best is to give the student confidence, as they did for me.  I know now that I can take these exercises and use them with students and on my own for my own benefit or to complete an initial analysis before creating a lesson plan.  It has been a confidence builder to struggle through this class, to acquire the teaching strategies, to apply them to my own analysis for this lesson plan and in the development of this lesson plan.  I think that in the end, the fact that I could develop a plan like this is proof that they work.

Also, I’m glad to have been a member of this group.  You guys all made it fun.