Simulated teaching

As mentioned earlier, I worked on the play Dance like a Man and focused on teaching the element of characters and the personality traits of the two major characters of the play. One of the strengths I felt about myself is that I was able to control my students and get them to concentrate on the lesson. Besides that, I was able to guide and direct my students to place the focus on the characters and the traits. This was evident as my students were able to come up with the feedback I expected with the guidance.

My negative side is also to be mentioned here. The first and foremost thing is that I tend to get nervous during the presentation and that affects my presentation normally. That is the part which I need to correct more in order to give out a good presentation. Mr Harold also gave us useful feedback to make sure that we correct ourselves to the better. His comments helped us to look back at our presentation and see our own mistakes.

We did not do it for the first time but there are a lot differences to state compared to our simulated teaching in the previous semester. We learnt how to vary our activities and also how to make it interesting to get the students’ attention. Another essential part is we utilised the technology to deliver lesson to the students. This is very much unlike the teaching method in those days. Besides that, we learnt to involve the students to participate actively in order to make sure that our lesson is student centred. This is very important because we do not want to hold on to the ‘old, traditional, classic’ way of teaching.

This simulated teaching experience has been very helpful and useful for us to practice our teaching skills and brush it up more to become better in future.