Preparing
for this presentation of a lesson was quite an interesting task throughout this
course. Lesson planning was the first aspect we had to master before even
thinking about how we were going about to teach this lesson. When it comes to
lesson planning I was quite skeptical about it due to the fact that it was new
to me. It was sort of difficult trying to decide what topic, subject and class
to go with seeing that it had so much to choose from but we wanted to go with
something we would be able to maneuver easily.
At
first we decided to go with a Visual and Performing Arts topic Collages but
then realized that the lesson was more based on the Mathematics lesson, Plane
Shapes. This decision was made late and left us all sort of unprepared. Before,
when the topic was collages our teaching points were separated into three
allowing each of us to present on each of the teaching points. The lesson plan
was changed in terms of the set induction and the flow of our teaching points
and this led me off track. When writing the objectives we considered the ABCD
objectives to make them specific and Bloom’s Taxonomy, which we also
incorporated into developing our teaching points. Deciding on a set induction
was challenging because throughout the course our instructor continuously
emphasized on creating interesting and interactive set inductions.
At
first we decided that we could ask the students to form their bodies into a
shape but after we mentioned it to miss, she gave us another idea where we
could have them use their bodies to make shapes and we can take pictures and
reiterate it back to them and ask them questions and so we agreed to going
along with this one. On the day of the presentation we were very unrehearsed
especially after seeing the other groups present. Some things were added on the
day that I did not knew of, like for example the set induction included what we
was going with as well as this new idea of putting the shapes into a bag and
having the students feel it and describe what they felt. After doing this it
had cut outs of what the students were describing and the names of the shapes
in which was stuck onto the board for viewing purposes for them to learn. Now
when I realized what it was going to be used for I was thinking that it was too
small for a display, which was mentioned in miss’s critique.
Based
on what I believed went well was just the actual activity of the lesson because
it was when the students were able to freely design their own home environment
using the plane shapes. There are a lot of things I would have done differently
especially meeting with members and preparing everything together. Most of our
presentation fell apart because of the recent changes day/s before, my focus
was on teaching point three where most of it was just reiterating the previous
information to the students guiding them along while they were creating their
collage, however the way the presentation went along my part seemed impossible
to do and so I hindered and because I’m not spontaneous, I am not the person who
could just make things up on the spot. This to me is one of my biggest drawback
after being shy about public speaking, if I could’ve just make up stuff on the
spot I would’ve and it would have made a difference even for my benefit. One
thing I enjoyed is when the students were designing their collages and how
interested they looked in making it.
The
next time presenting a lesson I will consider and make sure I encourage my
members to meet and prepare the lesson properly, I’ll try to work on my shyness
and public speaking and be able to think and make ideas on the spot because
every teacher should have this skill. All in all I think the presentation was
done fairly well and I look forward to using this as a learning experience to
do better on my next attempt.
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