Teaching STL's

For the past couple of weeks we have been having students teach STL's and one lesson that stood out to me was Lindsey's lesson on Thursday. Like Geoff said she did an awesome job at layer teaching! She never had to tell us directly what her STL was she just "teased it out". Like when we did a couple of equations on excell she never said we are learning about the different computer programs, she just taugh about one and got her point across. Also it made the lesson so much more interesting and she was really confident.

One thing that I noticed about some students as they were teaching, even myself, is that we are self conscious when we teaching up infront of everyone. As a result of that we are thinking more about what other people are think and not focusing on what we are doing at the moment. We sit there and critic eachothers lessons and know what would have made other students lessons better, but when it comes down to it some of us find it hard to apply good teaching methods.For example we forget to check for understanding or we say umm a ton, or we even end with the forbidden, "any questions"? I previously have this problem with preforming and one thing that helped me in those situations is the frase,"Be present in what ever your doing". Not just physically present but mentally be intune with what you are doing and trying to accomplish in that moment.