Micro-teaching 1 Reflection

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The common suggestions I got from my peers are that the clarity of presentation and activity, timing and pacing should be improved. And the learning objectives should be better addressed and met. I agree with that. The paper cutting activity involved approximately drawing 6 rectangles in same size and have even space between them. By observation, Brenda and Hugo spent the most of time to use ruler to try to draw these rectangles accurately. This is an excellent strategy, but it is hard to finish in 6 minutes. And Danielle had no problem with the "approximately" and successfully finish the paper cutting.

The takeaways from this micro-teaching are that if the instruction is unclear, people in the same group will have different way to implement the activity, then the outcomes will be diverse. And 10 mins is a very very short time for teaching one skill to beginners, especially for cutting 囍 whose instruction can be complicated. For the next micro-teaching, I should carefully choose the activity to ensure it is suitable for beginners and can be implemented in less than 10 minutes. To prepare a clear instruction, I should think as a learner in other to know the difficult part.

I am glad that my peers liked the history introduction and my personal experience of Chinese Paper Cutting. I used to wonder if I should remove this part from my activity so that we would have more time doing the paper cutting. But I decided to keep it, because this could make the activity feel more significant like Danielle said.








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  1. Susan GerofskyOctober 7, 2019 at 12:14 PM

    Great thinking and reflections on this micro teaching experience, Wanyi! I’m glad you kept the cultural information too.

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