Reflection on 1st Microteaching Lesson

Peer Evaluation

According to the feedback, most agree that basic knowledge of the chosen topic was introduced, and everyone was able to participated in the activity. Pretest of prior knowledge was acknowledged (as a part of introduction) and post-test on learning was achieved through practice. The conclusion was a little blurry to some peers. Over all, this lesson was interesting and demonstrations with required equipment,music, and examples were well accepted by the peers. However, many suggested that a louder speech, and variation and combination of knowledge are the areas that need further improvement. Also, "it would be nice to have the lesson more organized."

Self-evaluation

I thought there were some things went well in my lesson. Making use of analogous examples was one of the them. it helps relate daily life experience that students can easily conceptualize and further improve the strength of the lesson. otherwise, everything else was adequate. However, if I were to teach this lesson again, I would definitely, first of all, improve the volume of my speech, which could help my peers better understand my lesson plan, and have several rehearsals before I would proceed the lesson. Also, it would be wise, depending on students' knowledge or level towards the topic, to choose learning material(the beat of music in this case) accordingly. Based on my peers' feedback, I noticed that the flexibility such that an instructor can alter his lesson as he proceeds could be a merit in lesson teaching. Also, taking students' input, often it is to their interest, and adopt it appropriately into the lesson without swerving too far away from the main topic is what makes a good lesson and a great instructor. One of the problems that could arise in this lesson was that not all students would be interested in the chosen topic, no matter how well prepared the lesson was. Therefore, some students may not even understand what they were doing, why they were doing it, or simply forget about what has just been taught ten minutes ago.