I have learned a lot of new things in the simulated teaching sessions in this course. Although my group hasn't presented for the while reading activity but I have learned a lot from the comments given by Dr. Edwin to my fellow course mates' presentations.
I can see most of my coursemates have actually put a lot of effort in preparing their simulated teaching, so do I. While we thought that we have actually done the best in our preparation of the worksheet and teaching materials, somehow there are always mistakes and imperfections in the eyes of our lecturer. When Dr. Edwin pointed out truck loads of mistakes that we made in our worksheet and also in our ways of conducting the lesson, and then I realized there are still a lot more space for us to improve ourselves in order for us to conduct a good lesson.
From the simulated teaching session, I am glad that we can learn from each other and get more and more idea from each other. I think all the worksheets I got from my coursemates will be a set of very good collections for my own reference in future. All the worksheets designed by different course mates would have different ideas and each has their strengths and weaknesses. Some have very creative exercises but may be too simple for advanced students. Some have too "ambitious" task that students may not be able to attempt it individually in a single lesson. So in this case, the teacher has to think of other way for the students to complete the task. Group work or pair work might be other good alternatives that the teacher can consider. From this experience, I have learned to be creative and flexible in teaching.
The using of technology is also very crucial in conducting a lesson. If we could make good use of the technology, this will make our lesson become more interesting and livelier. This also helps to catch students' attention and lighten the teacher's burden in explanation.
The way we speak and the language we used are also very important in making a good lesson. I appreciate that our lecturer actually corrected us when we were using the wrong words or making grammatical mistakes. Sometimes we were just so used to talk in a carefree way with our friends and no one actually bothers to correct our mistakes. But as a future English teacher, who will become a role model for younger generations, I think we really need to speak properly and accurately.
All in all, I think it is a very good experience for us to "foretaste" the experience of being a teacher. I think most of us have learned a very good lesson in this simulated teaching session and all these experiences will be very useful in our future teaching career.
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Hola Soon Mun!
I exactly agree with Wong Soon Mun that we can learn a lot that we might not get during lecture when we read our friends blog. I think this is one way that we could exchange our opinion about what we had learned by commenting our friend’s blog. This is my first time using blog so at the beginning I thought it was a difficult but after that I feel writing blog was interesting because I could expresses what I have feel and learn during the course EDU 3217. I do think that this kind of activity could be done in my lesson when I’m going out for teaching practice later on. This kind of activity will give opportunity for my students to express their feeling and thoughts towards what I have taught them.
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