1. Controlling of the tempo of the class is kind of challenging. Sometimes students would asking questions while I was talking. My first reaction was always stopping and answering their questions. On one hand, I felt this kind of immediate feedback really helped students. On the other hand, I felt like this kind of interruption was breaking the tempo of teaching. Sometimes I would forget where I was before the questions. And the experience of students might be affected by the interruption. And I noticed some experienced instructors wouldn’t answer students’ questions when they were on important topics. And they would come back to the questions right after they finished their topics. This is what I need to learn and apply to my class.

2. Since the major component of this class (R341) is group work. There are 8 group assignments/projects throughout the semester. How to make sure all the students contribute evenly and fairly to the group is always a challenge. Different situations happens to various group that have this issue. For example, for one group, one student had really passive personality and just waiting other group members to assign job to her. However, other group members didn’t really know her and didn’t assign anything. After one group project, both sides complained. For another group, a technique issue (Google Drive didn’t work) happened on the weekend before the due day. Without enough communication between group members, all of them were working on their own parts and other ones’ parts. And they all complained they couldn’t get responses from others and did more than what they should. From these cases, we can tell the complexity of group work. You never know what will happen to a group. But the most important thing is to encourage group members communicating with each other frequently.