Last class, I did micro teaching with my partner, Micchi.
We did a mini reading lesson. Thank you for your cooperation with us!
I would like to review and write about it.
The objectives of my pre-reading and in-reading activities
・In pre-reading activity, I read the textbook and students listened to me without it. After that, we asked them what the word they could hear and what did it mean. Students tried to think about what the story was about and what are the key words about it.
・In in-reading activity, students tried to understand the story using work sheet after reading text book. And we checked student's answer and the contents of story.
What were the strengths and weaknesses of my mini-lesson
Strenghs
・We used a very short part of story. Some students might have got bored reading it at the beginning of the lesson and we tried not to happen that. So we didn't show the story at first and students turned their attention to teachers.
・When we explained the story, we used pictures and they helped students understand the content of story, and what's more, they attracted students.
Weaknesses
・If we had given students more reading activities, our mini- lesson would become better and more cheerful.
・We couldn't finish our lesson in 15 minutes. I think there were some ideas to take less time. For example, we could have explained more shortly and clearly, and when students worked on sheet, we shoul have given a time limits and so on.
・I tryed to help students who have some question or trouble but I could have helped more students.
Discoveries about teaching
・After micro teaching, I realized that English education at Jr. high school was very difficult, especially, I had difficulty in thinking about what students understand and how to cope with students who have negative attitude to English.
It was really good oppotunity to my practice teaching in this summer. What I learned from this experience will be helpful during it, and I want to get many skills about English education.
Thank you for reading my blog and pleaes write comment about our micro teaching.
