Hey studentsJ

Finally the microteaching’s over... It’s not graded but it’s still soooo stressful! But it’s a great learning experience. Really… I feel super-relieved yet satisfiedJ

Well, the class did manage to go somewhat like how I planned it to be, except for some minor hiccups here and there. I did stick to my time as according to the lesson plan and am really happy that the students participated actively. I was a little nervous at first, but I slowly gained confidence as the lesson progressed. One lesson I learnt is to always be armed with a bottle of water. Halfway through the lesson, my throat was really dry. I think that’s when I started stumbling on a few words! Only when the students started to do their quiz did I reach out to my bag to get my bottle! Should have done it earlierJ

I was really lucky that Ken had just taught the lesson on factors affecting industries and it fitted in seamlessly into my lesson. I did not have to spend much time probing the class into answering many questions as the information was still fresh in the minds of many. I should have gotten my hands on a longer video though. It would have really helped to make the lesson more visual. Sadly, no matter how much I searched, this was the best Google had to offer!

A mistake that I made was that I forgot to tell the students to close their books and notes before doing the quiz. I had that on my lesson plan and I still don’t know how I could have forgotten that. Much of the entire lesson was done in a bit of a rush as I wanted to be able to conduct the quiz and time was running out. In a normal class, I would have given students time to look through their notes and books before attempting the quiz. But I decided to just jump into the quiz for our class due to time constraints.

When the question on ‘capital’ was raised, I was not sure what Lily was saying at first. I should have made the term clearer to the students from the start. I had that down in my personal outline that I printed out. But once again, totally forgot while hurrying through the lessonJ

It was a funny situation when Chris asked me about my pay! I was so tempted to tell students the estimated figure and ask them to work harder and get better results so that I could get promoted… Hehehe... Kidding! But this has come up in a class before and I just brushed it away. However, I did once tell the rough figure to my form class during my 6 months in Tanjong Katong. It was during PCCG and we were discussing career development and some students were seriously interested in teaching. Thus when this question came up as part of the career description, I did not see much harm in answeringJ

I made a grave error in class today and I am really sorry. It was the part on Karnataka being Bangalore’s capital. I was a little unsure and had reminded myself many times to check it before class. Once again, it completely ran out of my mind. I just checked up on it a while ago and found out that Bangalore is in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka and not the other way round. Really sorry about this. I would have surely corrected myself the following lesson if this was a real case scenario. I guess these microteaching lessons are really for us to learn, and this is something I’m surely going to keep in mind.

Well, that’s about all. I really wanna thank you all for being great ‘students’.

Cheers,

RakshaJ