Multiple Teaching Strategies:
Throughout my student-teaching internship I attempted to implement and as many teaching strategies as possible, such as slot notes, Power Point, jigsaw activities, written responses, research projects, and paired work. Often at times I would get a little side-tracked and revert back to lecture. Nevertheless, since I has fortunate enough to have two preps there was much leeway of what could be done. If there was a particular strategy that worked, then I would incorporate it later and also within the other prep I was fortunate enough to have been able to teach.

Monitors and adjusts strategies in response to learner feedback:
The one thing I really strived for more than any thing else was to continuously try to gain feedback from students in order to adjust my strategies that was best suited for their practical learning needs. During my unit on the Rise of Russia my notes were not very comprehensive and the text on the transparency was too small for those students in the back of the class to see. After class I went back to the drawing board in order to simplify my notes from two pages to one page. The font was more easily readible and the students appreciated not having to take a whole lot of notes that weren't particularly relevent. I also provided students to not only give feedback whenever they could (without it getting out of hand) but also had them, on two occassions, provide an evaluation of my teaching performance. Once at mid point and last day of my internship.

Cooperative Learning and Group Interaction
I was always kind of weary about using group or paired work, let alone cooperative learning. However, over the course of my internship I found through thorough planning this type of strategy could work.