Saturday, March 29, 2008

HOW I EVALUATE MY FRIENDS’ MICROTEACHING

HOW I EVALUATE MY FRIENDS’ MICROTEACHING

First and foremost, when I want to evaluate my friends’ microteaching, I will look at their preparation. As if they give all the worksheets that, they are supposed to give to their students in order to facilitate learning process. Then, for pre-presentation or set induction stage, I will look at the material or sources that is been used in this stage either it is interesting or not. If their set induction can attract students’ attention and it relates with what they are going to learn, then it is excellent for teaching and learning during that time. After set induction, it is followed by pre-reading stage where the teacher will provide an extract from any drama for students to read and study. They as a teacher can choose whether they want to analyze character, setting, theme or plot. If tasks which are been given to students are moderate and easily to understand according to their level, then it is good for their learning. After that, their while-reading stage must be related with the previous pre-reading stage. Besides that, the while-reading activity should be more difficult than pre-reading activity. However, the most important factor that every teacher must be concerned is the level of their students whether they are beginner, intermediate or advanced students. Thus, all the tasks that are been given to the students should be catered their students’ level in order to avoid any difficulty and confusion among their students. In other words, the activities, which are been prepared for all stages should be appropriate to the students’ level besides they are been connected to each other. Furthermore, the teacher also should give a clear instruction to the students by using simple language and familiar vocabulary so that the students can easily understand the instruction given to them besides to avoid any miscommunication between teachers with their students during learning process. Moreover, during teaching the teachers also have to give a credit like a praise or reward to their students when they give a correct answer or response. As a result, the atmosphere of the class will become more cheerful when there is an interaction between teachers with their students. In addition, a good teacher should always give a smile to his or her students whether they are tired or not. Then, the teachers also must give an appropriate time to their students in order to attempt the tasks according to the level of difficulty of the questions. Teachers should apply all these strategies when they are teaching in order to lower students’ anxiety level in the class. Finally, the teachers should know how to handle the class when they do not pay attention during learning and then make up a noise. Finally yet importantly, the most important is the teacher should be confident while teaching their students, also establish student-centered learning in the class since the students will not be passive, and get bore easily. Overall, the best teacher will always be prepared before he or she comes to the class in order to make his or her students to respect him or her as a teacher in the class besides to avoid any problem arise during the teaching process occurs. With this, I evaluate my friends’ microteaching based on all that criteria that I have mentioned above, which are extremely important.

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