Lesson Plan Presentation

I felt that we did a good job of utilizing DLT, but we may have not done as great of a job applying the other theories to our lesson. By providing an example of a good and bad speech we allowed the class to have a concrete example of what we would be discussing. I feel that if we would have discussed what our goal of the lesson was from the beginning then our activity of having the groups discuss the topics on the board would have been more successful. It was a good idea that we had but we didn't quite think it through fully to be able to successfully accomplish the goal of social interaction.
We also didn't move around the room to listen to whether the groups were actually discussing the topic or not, which was not good on our parts. I didn't even think of doing it until I saw a member of the group after us do it. This would have helped to keep the students more actively mentally engaged and would have kept them from straying from the topic.
By asking the class what were some good and bad points from both of the speeches we hoped to keep them engaged in the topic, which I think was successful. If we would have simply stated the ways to give a good speech the class would have gotten bored and uninterested in our discussion.
We could have made the lesson more relatable to the class by simply focusing on speaking in  a classroom setting, which isn't something that I thought of until writing this post. The class would have been interested in that because it is something that we have to do now and that we will have to do in front of a class eventually.
All in all, I felt that our group did a fairly good job for the amount of time we had to prepare. The candy may have been overkill, but it's almost Halloween, and who doesn't like Reese's?! =]