Eventhough I was nervous and made some mistakes during my simulated teaching, I still learnt rather a lot from this teaching activity. I learnt about the importance of paying more attention towards the students' needs and interests in order to have more efective and pleasant classroom teaching and learning experiences.
For example, I learnt that it was not appropriate for the teacher to reject a student's response immediately eventhough he or she might not give the most suitable or the correct anwers. This awareness was important because it was particularly true that there was no right or wrong anwers for literature lessons. I should ask the student to justify his or her answers, instead of just saying that he or she had given the wrong answers. In fact, when the teacher rejected a student's answer immediately, it would affect the student's self-esteem and self-confidence. It might cause the student being reluctant to participate and contribute his or her ideas in the next lessons.
Then, I learnt how to come out with a good set induction so that I would initiate studens' interest towards my teaching. At the same time, a good set induction would help to activate students' correct cantent schemata or students' prior knowledge, and thus, facilitates the students' understanding.
Besides that, I learnt to examine my choice of topic. I just realised that it is very important to choose the topics that the students are interested in. The topics chosen must be appropriate for the cognitive development of the students. Students' maturity of thoughts needed to be considered during the materials selection.
Then, the teaching and learning experience would be much more enjoyable and effective if the texts chosen are culturally similar to the students' cultural background. If the texts of different cultures are chosen, then the teacher needs to provide sufficient information or input regarding that particular foreign culture so that the students can understand the texts without too much difficulties.
In conclusion, this simulated teaching opens my eyes to some aspects that I need to pay attention to if I want to carry out a good lesson.
By: Chuah Kar Wooi
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B.Ed. (TESL)
Group 21
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wow...you seem to have gather alot of input through the simulated teaching i presume and that good..erm, being nervous is normal besides it is our first time of individual teaching right..a good set induction does play a major role in the lesson and to me there are several ways of having a great set induction..you said about activating schemeta which is true and to me the best way is by understanding the students themselves. you can try and figure out what topics that they indulge in the most. as an example, find out their favourite hang out place, their latest hobby and such. by doing this you can use the those things that interest them and infuse it in the lesson..this can always help in choosing the right topic..overall, i must say that i agree with mostly what you have wrote here. i hope by the knowledge we gain through this practice, we can improve better the next time.
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