What I took back from the mock teaching

So our mock teaching finally came to an end,I have to say,though it was a gruelling 3 weeks but everyone manage to pull it off.If I had to pick the best learning experience I had from one of the teachers,it would be from teacher Shevani.She taught us literature on that day and I have to say it was very informative,I haven't read Phantom Of The Opera in a long time after school,only been reading Singapore true ghost stories and ancient civilisation books but she sparked my interest again when she was explaining the chapters in the book.She even had a role play where some of us participated and created a reenactment of a chapter from the book which made it easier for the students to visualise the scenes which took places back then.We even had a short quiz/game where she divided into groups and though the main purpose of the game was to make it easier for us to remember the keywords,it also created teamwork and interaction between students which is vital in a classroom,for these reasons,Besides that,the time she put in to make the props for the students during the reenactment had me believe that she had taken the time to prepare for it and thats a quality that teachers should posses.


Though it was a good 3 weeks,there are some issues that happened during the mock teaching that I would like to highlight.First being the fact that some students were using their handphones,I noticed that some teachers just brushed of the fact that they were using them and that may send the wrong message to the other students,that its fine to use the handphone in class.This is basically chain effect of "monkey see,monkey do" and it may effect the performances of the students as their attention is not towards the lesson.Next,it would be the fact that some teachers were reading word to word from the slides that was displayed on the projector,it would be better for the students understanding if the teachers tried to use their own words to explain rather than reading from it.Last but not least,it would be the seating arrangement,I could see that students were scattered around table though there weren't many of them.Its harder for the teacher to focus on the students and give group activities when they are everywhere,therefore it would have been best if the teacher had the students combined onto a table.

In a nut shell,it was a good 3 weeks and though there were some minor improvements that could be made from my part and a few others,everyone still did a good job considering it was our first mock teaching