Monday, March 13, 2006

Reflection on my presentation

Although I have had several experiences of presenting a lesson during the last two years, I still felt a little bit nervous on stage this time. After all, I was presenting a lesson in front of a group of experts. Once this thought pumped in my mind, I found myself speeded up the teaching procedure unconsciously, and hence, missed lots of important steps in the teaching process.
For example, sometimes I presented the flash cards with the spelling of the vocabulary, but sometimes not. This might confuse students. The better way to do it is to invite students to spell the vocabulary while I presented the flash cards.
As for the conversation practice, actually I should try to motivate students to volunteer to do the role-playing with me instead of picking up some particular students to provide the answer. I guess I couldn’t stand that if I ask students to volunteer but no one was willing to take a risk, so I just singled out some students by name. And it would be better if we read the conversation out loud together after we finished the role-playing exercise.
Finally, I think the game could be more interesting if we could design more challenging questions for students and gave a clearer instruction on how to play the game.

1 Comments:

At 11:11 PM, Blogger Alice said...

Dear Helen,

I might sound harsh when I gave comments on your group's presentation, but sincerely, I want to give your a thumb-up! It's not easy to present in front of a group of "experts," to be sure. So, your courage was highly admired. Actually, your performance reminded me of my first few lessons when I started my teaching career. I was so nervous that my mind became blank. As a result, I had to improvise on the spot! Luckily, my nervousness didn't show so I felt quite relieved afterwards. However, I also felt frustrated and made up my mind to improve my teaching. See, that's the value of failures. We learn through our experiences, don't we? I believe you'll definitely do better next time in your micro-teaching. Way to go, girl!

 

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