After the Set Induction stage has ended, Mr. Harold decided to ask us to present both pre and while reading stages one after another because time is running out. I faced difficulties while designing the activities for both stages. It took me over a week to complete them because I was never satisfied with what I did.
When I was in school, I don’t exactly remember answering tasks for pre reading stage. Once in a while during secondary school, yes, but not that often. Usually, when the teacher came in he/she would ask us to open up our textbooks to a certain page and attempt the questions quietly. The tasks that I did were always for the while reading stage. I’m beginning to think that lesson plans that they design are merely a façade for the system. I mean, the teachers in school even skip the set induction and pre reading stages and straight away to the while reading stage! Worst still, they rarely gave us work for post reading and they don’t always conclude the lesson! The routine was always answering the questions individually and the teacher would ask the students one by one to give the answers. After that, they would assign us plenty of homework. Was school a good experience? No, not the educational part of school.
For the pre reading activity I designed a task that requires the students to read the extracts given and match them with the personality traits given. Initially, I thought of asking the students to figure out the traits themselves to make them think. But I wanted them to concentrate on the traits that I have come up with. If l had let them to figure it up themselves, I will get various answers. If this happens, I know that I will encounter problems leading them to the traits that I want to teach them.
I prepared two questions for the while reading stage. I asked the students to fill in the personality traits from previous task in the table that I have provided for question 1. In that same table, I asked them to decide if the traits are positively or negatively connoted. For question 2, I want the students to pick a trait from the previous question and elaborate on that trait. Here, I want the students to concentrate on one attribute and write a paragraph about it with textual evidenced.
If I were to grade myself, I would give myself an A- for this simulated teaching. My language use is my strength. Other than that, I would say just OK. Unfortunately, I did nothing extraordinary for these stages. Another thing is that I did not really walk around. I only stand at one place. I find it difficult for me to do so because the simulated teaching was conducted in a large lecture hall. I know this sound like an excuse but I can’t walk around with my microphone as it was not wireless. I had to use the microphone because the place is just too big and the students would not be able to listen to me. If I was asked to do the same lesson again, I would not change anything. I still think that the task is fine. The only change I want is the venue.
When I was in school, I don’t exactly remember answering tasks for pre reading stage. Once in a while during secondary school, yes, but not that often. Usually, when the teacher came in he/she would ask us to open up our textbooks to a certain page and attempt the questions quietly. The tasks that I did were always for the while reading stage. I’m beginning to think that lesson plans that they design are merely a façade for the system. I mean, the teachers in school even skip the set induction and pre reading stages and straight away to the while reading stage! Worst still, they rarely gave us work for post reading and they don’t always conclude the lesson! The routine was always answering the questions individually and the teacher would ask the students one by one to give the answers. After that, they would assign us plenty of homework. Was school a good experience? No, not the educational part of school.
For the pre reading activity I designed a task that requires the students to read the extracts given and match them with the personality traits given. Initially, I thought of asking the students to figure out the traits themselves to make them think. But I wanted them to concentrate on the traits that I have come up with. If l had let them to figure it up themselves, I will get various answers. If this happens, I know that I will encounter problems leading them to the traits that I want to teach them.
I prepared two questions for the while reading stage. I asked the students to fill in the personality traits from previous task in the table that I have provided for question 1. In that same table, I asked them to decide if the traits are positively or negatively connoted. For question 2, I want the students to pick a trait from the previous question and elaborate on that trait. Here, I want the students to concentrate on one attribute and write a paragraph about it with textual evidenced.
If I were to grade myself, I would give myself an A- for this simulated teaching. My language use is my strength. Other than that, I would say just OK. Unfortunately, I did nothing extraordinary for these stages. Another thing is that I did not really walk around. I only stand at one place. I find it difficult for me to do so because the simulated teaching was conducted in a large lecture hall. I know this sound like an excuse but I can’t walk around with my microphone as it was not wireless. I had to use the microphone because the place is just too big and the students would not be able to listen to me. If I was asked to do the same lesson again, I would not change anything. I still think that the task is fine. The only change I want is the venue.
true gal..Until now I only remember the moments when my teacher during secondary school years assigned us the tasks from the text books and etc. Those days it was all more teacher centred and perhaps that is why we are now being trained to make difference by practicing the student centerd teaching methods. I welcome this idea and I believe we should really be different than teachers in those days.
ReplyDeleteApart from that, about your presentations, you did well in designing the worksheets and also your style of teaching. None of us is perfect yet and we need to brush up alot more. It is an on going process so we will learn more by time. Do not worry. You will make a good teacher!
All the best!!!