Micro Teaching Reflection

The planning process was interesting for me since I have been playing this game since I have been playing it for so long with other people who know the game well. I had to really stop and think about how to break down the rules and points system as well as explain the card values and suits to people who were not familiar with Italian card deck. It was difficult to estimate times for these explanations since I wasn't sure what people would find more confusing.

During the lesson I realized I should have left my lesson plan out to reference during the lesson. I was so preoccupied by making sure my group knew the values of the cards and would get a chance to play I completely forgot to state that the objective was for them. Taking that few seconds in the beginning to explain what I was going to present and what they should be able to by the end of the lesson would have been beneficial to my group so that they could know what to pay attention to during the lesson. I also found it difficult to juggle my attention between explaining the object of the game and how to play with how much time was left in class. I wanted to give as much time as possible to playing the game so I skipped giving multiple examples to give the group a chance to play a game with everyone's cards exposed so that they could have more time to play. In hindsight, doing more examples might have been better and made the game play a little easier for them. I also should have written out the rules and points for the group to reference while playing to make it easier for them to do strategic plays.