This time around for our class, we had a more solidified plan and broke everything into timed segments which helped us keep to the class time as well as giving the students a chance to have a short break at about the midpoint.

I didn’t fully pay attention to how long each activity was, but the pace of the lesson was good and the class was kept engaged with everything the whole class. There were internet problems that prevented some students from being able to participate as much as they could have. 

When we put the students into breakout rooms, the time it took to go through everything that had been planned out didn’t take as long as anticipated. In the group I was in, we had 3 minutes left when the group had finished going through the answers. The same thing happened in our second breakout room where we went over comprehension questions. In those breakout rooms, it was easy to go over the questions and see where the students needed better understanding of what the question was asking and then rephrasing it. 

Planning the lesson out and trying to figure out how long a time each activity should take was interesting with the way I thought about it, however with what I learned from this lesson, I now know that with this particular group of students, they are quite quick to grab the concepts and apply them making it so that the breakout rooms don’t need as long and with the comprehension questions, there had been an allotted time period of half an hour, however, each group only needed about 15 minutes to get through the section of the worksheet that they had been given. We used the rest of the time period to go over the discussion and what the different groups had come up with.