Had my first micro teaching about two weeks ago. Was very nervous, but it was a great experience. The benefit of having filmed my lesson was tremendous. No one likes to hear/see themselves on recording but in order to master this "teaching thing" I think it is both necessary and advantageous. For my microteaching I taught a lesson in iambic pentamenter. I am very passionate when it comes to Shakespeare so I was very excited to teach this lesson. I most certainly look forward to the second microteaching.
I am writing this post so the members of my group can comment on my lesson.
I thoroughly enjoyed your lesson as it was a fun diversion from the typical sentence analysis method. Sharing a bit of your acting, self interests and personal applications of this topic was honest and helpful in building a teacher-student connection. You said you were nervous, but you appeared confident, prepared and knowledgeable in your subject matter. You projected your voice well and seemed relaxed as the teacher.
ReplyDeleteHaving the lesson name written/ printed somewhere to see visually would be helpful as it is not a phrase I have ever heard before. I found I had difficulty marking the sentences accurately and I would have liked to hear them said aloud by you, maybe even slightly slower and more accentuated to help initially understand how it should be done properly. This subject has always been a challenge for me and you had my interest, the class was fun and I enjoyed your “teacher personality” fully. Great job!
I am not a huge fan of Shakespeare or Iambic pentameters. In high school whenever I had to read something written by Shakespeare I automatically dreaded it because I could never catch on to his writing style. Your lesson really helped me. Associating the clapping with the beats in the sentences really helped me. I am mainly a visual learner, but in cases like these actually ‘acting’ out the sentence aided me in grasping the subject a little bit more. You’re prior acting experience definitely helped you teach because you were very sure of yourself when you were in front of us. You had mentioned you were nervous but that did not show in your lesson at all. Also, writing the material on the board helped me picture what we were doing, but worksheets to follow along with this could have given me a better understanding. You made the lesson very fun and whenever I hear about Shakespeare or Iambic pentameters in the future I will always remember what you taught us! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job teaching iambic pentameter! You said you were nervous, but I am pretty sure we all were nervous at the start. Any nervousness you had, though, was well utilized into the energy and excitement that you have for the topic. I very much enjoyed the clapping out of the beats to help us deduce where the stressed or unstressed syllables would be placed within the sentence. My one confusion with the lesson was with the sentences we were asked to label with iambic pentameter because the number of syllables didn't seem to line up well, simply because Shakespeare does some weird stuff with how his words are to be pronounced. Other than that one little complexity, I think your energy really shone through with this one and kept me interested throughout! Good job!
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