In the last meeting of PETA course, we did micro-teaching. It was really cool. We acted as if we were a real teacher at the time. We did micro-teaching about models of instructions. We did it in a team. So, while the performing team performed in the front of class, the other teams assessed them. We were assessed based on our performance in the opening, the content, the elaboration, and the application of the model of instruction that we chose.
Well, I learnt a lot of things from the micro-teaching. Honestly, at first I thought that teaching is kind of piece of cake. It just deals with entering the class, telling students about the material briefly, and giving them assignments. After doing the micro-teaching I realized that it is not. Teaching is challenging and the most complex job to do. We have to deal with various students with various the ways of thinking and unify them in to one best way of instruction which acceptable for all of them.
The next challenge is we have to be an extremely creative person. We have to deliver our lesson through the model of instruction that we have chosen creatively, otherwise the students will get bored and the lesson is going to be useless. That one is really a difficult thing to do.
However, I also learnt one important thing from the micro-teaching. As a teacher, you can not win every student in the class. I mean, however hard you have tried to choose and conduct a best model of instruction for the class, you can not make all of your students comfort with that because they have their own interest which is can be really different among another. Therefore, you have to be fair to them by changing the model of instruction in every meeting, so you can reach every student expectation although not in the same time.
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