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Final Micro-Teaching Session

Salam

The first pair did a very good job. Natural teachers. Nevertheless, I think both skimming and scanning could have been explained and demonstrated.

The second pair taught a skill useful in grammar and writing. Though punctuation is prescribed by the KBSM specification, it falls under 'Presenting information to different audience' not under 'Processing text'. They are two different things. Thus, it was not a reading lesson. Common sense could have told you that. The only reading part of the lesson is the reading aloud of the letters.

The third pair did an excellent job in explaining the skills and in selecting materials, intructional aids and activities. Bravo.

The fourth pair did a good job. Good to include games in your lesson, but in the real classroom you can't conduct games all the time. Interesting choice of topic. Voice projection could be improved. Skimming is suitable for longer passages, thus, applying the tips given on how to skim for main ideas from paragraphs is somehow not right. When using paragraphs you should teach how to locate or infer the main idea, not skimming for main idea.

The 5th micro-teaching sounded a bit scripted. Should have demonstrated how to locate main idea.

The passage for the last presentation was not suitable for form 1 students.

Micro-Teaching

Salam

Bravo to the two pairs who micro-taught on Wednesday. Efforts to explain the skill well were apparent. Most of the instructional aids were effective. The second pair's explanation and activity I believe were impactful.

Micro-Teaching

Salam

The 3rd micro-teaching session was better than the first two. Not much time was wasted on reading aloud. Actual teachings of the skills were carried out and the best was on distinguishing between a fact and an opinion. Bravo to all.

Nevertheless, Wh-question is not a reading skill. It is suitable to be taught in a grammar or a writing class.

MICRO-TEACHING SCHEDULE - U5D

As requested:

13 Oct

Nur Zakiah & Mohd Ateff
Liyana & Hafizah
Nurul Haziqah & Fuzirah Hanim
Nursyuhada & Siti Ainul
Hafizuddin & Siti Nor Aisyah
Mafarhanatul Akmal & Napisah

20 Oct - Has been changed to the 22nd of October at M314 (will confirm later)

Nur Syafarina & Ahmad Irwan
Najwa Hanani & Nur Hani Laily
Adleen & Anis Shazwani
Huzaifah & Hartini

22 Oct

Nurul Hazianti
Nurul Aainaa

2nd Microteaching Session

Salam

The second microteaching session was better than the first. Skills were taught, nevertheless the the explanation could be improved. You have to really be prepared to teach the skills. There was still the reading aloud activity which I thought could be better used for more teaching,explanation and examples of the skills.

For the others who act as students please next time do provide the wrong answers. This would give your friends the opportunity to explain.

Micro Teaching

Salam everyone

My observation of the first microteaching session is that there wasn't much teaching going on. It was a more like 'giving the correct answer' session. Handouts were distributed and the correct answers were given without any explanation.

If your lesson plan states that detecting the main idea is one of the objectives, please do teach how to detect main ideas. The instructional aids are supposed to facilitate the learning of this skill or strategy. In fact some of you did not even teach anything making it hard for me to give any marks on some of the evaluation criteria posted in a previous entry. Please minimize or perhaps eliminate totally the reading aloud activity in your microteaching. One group did this activity twice. You can carry out such activity when you start teaching in schools.

For the subsequent sessions please assume that your students are not familiar with the skills or strategies you plan to teach.

Good Luck