Reflection
for MicroTeaching 2
I feel very proud of my
MicroTeaching 2. Personally I think that it came out a lot better than my first
one did. The whole experience went very well, all of my classmates/students
answered the questions that I had. They also were very involved with the
reading and acting out the play that I assigned to them for my indirect
teaching class. I personally cannot
think of any area of weakness. If I had to choose something, I wish that I did
something different with my technology portion, maybe make a PowerPoint, like a
lot of other people in my group did.
In my opinion my objective was met,
the students were able to answer my questions, and they were able to come up
with their own predictions about what might happen in Part 2 of the play, just
by reading Part 1. The evidence of my objective being met is the class
discussion that was had after they read the play, and their ability to answer
the questions that I assigned to them for homework. I feel that all of the
students were able to meet the objective because everyone participated in the
class discussion, but if any of the students did not understand the questions
that I gave them, that would be because they didn’t understand the play that I
had them read. If this was the case I would hope that those students would ask
me to clear any confusion up for them.
I learned that as long as I act like
myself and feel comfortable in my own skin then I will appear more comfortable
in front of my class. I was just as nervous before this MicroTeaching 2 as I
was before MicroTeaching 1, but I felt more comfortable with the particular
classmates that I was with this time, and I also felt more professional because
I was dressed much better compared to the first MicroTeaching. Dressing more professional was big for me, it
helped me feel like a real teacher, and I believe that feeling more professional
is also what helped me feel more comfortable teaching my lesson.
This experience helped me with my
professional identity by showing me that dressing better helped make me feel
like a real teacher. I still feel like I
need to slow down my speech in some areas, but I will have to work on that with
time because I am normally a very fast talker. MicroTeaching 2 showed me that
as long as I am comfortable with myself and my lesson, then my passion for my
content will shine through. I felt much better that I did not go first on the
first day, it made me feel more comfortable that I was able to watch several of
my classmates teach their lessons before I taught mine. I am very happy with
how my MicroTeaching 2 came out, and it made me feel very good that after I was
finished all of my classmates told me how great it was and how much fun they
had preforming out the play.
