Maytaya's Micro Teaching Reflect

 21^st October, 2014   

                Due to Maytaya’s micro teaching on the 21^st October, 2014, I would like to reflect his teaching to develop and adopt some useful techniques in my teaching in the future. Her micro teaching is related to the unit “Signs and notices in real life” in lesson: “Can I help you?”  The time required in this lesson is 50 minutes. I found that her micro teaching is quite useful lesson, but she looks too nervures. It can be said that this work needs to be developed and improved. Lesson plan “Can I help you?” consists of learning standards, objectives, instructional materials, evaluation, lesson plan outline, and rubric. In lesson plan outline consists of pre-task (10 minutes), task-cycle (30 minutes), and language focus (10 minutes).

                  First of all, I I will focus to Maytaya’s micro teaching steps. To begin with pre-task that spend 10 minutes. She introduces the topic by asking the questions “What do you say in English to ask and give directions?” Next, she chooses key words concerning the direction, such as go straight, turn right, turn left, intersection ahead, rotary ahead, etc. Then she shows the picture cards, and asks her students “What is the sign?”  Owe to those questions, I can see the mistakes from using wrong sentences in her micro teaching.  Next, she opens the audio twice and checks students understanding by using the exercise. In the language focus step, she asks students to discuss with modal verb (Can, Could). Nonetheless, while she was teaching, she looks nervures and  lacks of confident. I think that she could do better than this if she was confident.

                           In conclusion, “Can I help you?” is one of good lesson that gives students the experience of public mind of giving direction. Nevertheless, the topic about giving direction is too popular among micro teaching. Therefore, I quite bored when had heard this topic will display again and again. Though this lesson is not a new and creating topic, but it can help students to improve their communicative skills. Therefore, it is important for the teacher to think progressively.