Once again, I faced the same problems again! The time for simulated teaching has arrived. And just like the previous semester, I do not know material should I use for my set induction. There are so many limitations; it should be able to link to my pre-reading task, it shouldn’t be too long, it shouldn’t bore students to death and etc. All these only made my task of picking the right material to be really tough. I decided to try poetry this time round, it’s about family love, just the right poem I need since I will be touching on the theme of sacrifice. And so I created a video clip with the poem in it and had everything done. It would work, I thought. But then as always, doubts regarding the effectiveness of the poem surrounded my brain. And so, a day before I am supposed to present, I decided to change everything(my set induction, extract and also my question) It was really tiring for me especially when sitting in front of my laptop editing Japanese anime so that I can show the part which relates to the theme. I wondered whether how the class would take it. It was a risk that I had to take. The next day, everything when as I planned. My evaluator thought that the video clip was interesting and so did my friends. It seems that the video really got them focused on what I was doing. Although it everything was basically ok, I thought that I could still improve myself, in this case my presentation of the lesson. I ended up asking the wrong questions to the “students”, used the wrong words and some other silly mistakes. The mistakes did not really disrupt my lesson, but I guess I have to learn something from it. Hopefully the next time round I will be almost perfect.
Besides that, i think i could get some ideas for future use from my other friends. For instance, Huey Wan's usage of an interactive cartoon clip is something rarely used by teachers in classes. Thus i feel i should always keep her idea in mind for future references.hehe
