2007年6月17日日曜日

micro-teaching reflection

In the last class, Ayana and I did a micro-teaching together .
Though we couldn't make a class as we wanted but I had a very good experience because of everyone.
Thank you Ayana and thank you for all students that took our class.

In class, we've faced some difficulties and sometimes didn't know what to do. And of course, we succeeded in some points. So I want to write each of them below.


strong points
1. In doing practice, we repeated the important phrases many times so that students might understand the key point soon. And also they could know how to use the words gradually in doing so.

2.Cards were very useful to understood the situation and got the meaning of the sentence.


weak points
1. In a conversation, we only talked each other and made students guess the situation. But it was a little bit difficult for junior high school students to understand in one time. So if we repeated the sentence again, or if we used cards or physical movements, it would be more understandable for them.
And I thought I should've spoken more slowly so that everyone could get the meaning.

2.Before we gave an enough explanation of the word"because", we went to a next step (do practices and applications). So some of the students looked confused not knowing how the word is formed.
If we made a handout or something to make them practice, it might be easier to understand, maybe.

3. The class was a little one-sided. If we did a communicative activities that everyone can take part in, the class would be more enthusiastic.