Booppps Lesson Plan - Peer Evaluation

Hello and welcome back to Thiessen's Math Blog. My last blog detailed my lesson plan on how a pitcher grips a baseball. My group consisted of 3 other people. I taught and was evaluated by Erwin, Ralph and Vincent. Below is a summary of what they said:

"The learning objectives were clear. Greg told us that we would be learning some of the various grips that a pitcher would use in a game. He bridged the topic by showing his interest in baseball and asking about our prior knowledge with the topic. We each said we played a little baseball but Greg then asked we if any of us had been pitchers. None of us had. Greg's lesson included a participatory activity by providing us each with a baseball to practice the various grips. In the middle of the lesson he asked us a question testing our memory on the fastball grip. He concluded the presentation by explaining how grips can change the rotation and speed of the ball. Overall it was a smoothly run hands on lesson. He showed enthusiasm for the subject and kept our attention.

"Some things Greg could work on is including more time at the end for a post-test to check in on our learning. He should also provide more info on why different grips are important and how they are used in baseball strategy. He needs a bit more closure to the topic and a little less complicated working with the different types of fastballs. The order of presentation of the grips could have been modified a bit too. More time should have been given to the curve ball."