8th Reflection

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone had a great week as much as I had. I finally finish one of my toughest assignment which is mock teaching on 14^th April 2016. It’s actually not that tough, it’s easy if you had the experience of teaching students and doing paperwork. It’s my first time doing lesson plans, handouts and slides for teaching. It was hard at first, then when ma’am guide us until choosing the right teaching approach, it was easy after that.

To complete a mock teaching, first I had to create a lesson plan that includes the topic of choice, target audience, level of proficiency, learning objective and learning outcome. It was difficult to do but I manage to do with the help of my friends. From doing the lesson plan, I had learned that before starting off with creating the handouts and slides, we first must identify what are the learning objective and outcome for our students. 

Once I am done with the lesson plan, I move forward in choosing the teaching approach that matches my learning outcome. I choose Problem based solving as my teaching approach because I will be teaching Maths and I think in teaching Maths, the best approach is Problem based solving in my point of view. And not only that, but we also need to identify three activities to do in class. Mine is Kahoot, group activity and brain rush. Actually, brain rush doesn’t suit my teaching approach because of its mastery learning and mine is problem-solving, so I change it to brainstorming which I think is suitable for my teaching approach because you need to brainstorm on how you going to solve the maths question. I have learned that whatever teaching approach or activity we choose it has to reflect on our learning outcome. And for that, the learning outcome has to be good. 

Problem-based solving

After completing the lesson plan, I move to the next step which is preparing my handouts and slides. This material is very important for mock teaching because it helps you in delivering your message. I had a difficult time doing it because it has to be perfect because, in my previous class, ma’am had taught us how to do a good handout and slides. So, there is a lot of expectation on creating a perfect handout and slide. I hope mine is good enough and my students understood what I taught them. From creating the two materials, I have gained the knowledge on how to do a creative and understanding handout and slide. I will definitely use this knowledge when I am doing my practicum. And not to forget, I am blessed to have my friends and senior who help me in designing and guiding me in creating PowerPoint and handouts. They also gave me tips and confidence to do my mock teaching. 

For mock teaching, I taught my students Mode, Mean, Median and Midpoint. It’s a form 4 syllabus chapter 6 Statistic II. After teaching, I gave handouts and did group activity where each group will be given one question to do and finish it in 5 minutes time. After they finish completing the question, one person will come in front and do the equation on the whiteboard. Some of them had the confusion of median and midpoint because it’s the same definition but I explain to them again and make sure that they really understood the definition. So at last after finishing the activity, I pick a student to explain what I had taught them and everyone gave a good answer. I was really happy that they understood what I have taught them. J Happy teacher. 

This is me teaching

Explaining to my students

  * Thanks to ma'am for snapping the pictures. 

As overall, I have not only gain knowledge but also gain experience to teach. It was a great adventure doing the lesson plan and creating handout, it will always be my first teaching experience to be remembered.

Thank you all for reading my blog.

Stay tuned for my last blog. J