my micro teaching..finally!!!

After all the wait the day finally arrived for wan jing and me. we had like really spent close to a week discussing and doing this lesson plan.i even travelled to hougang the day before to fine tune our lesson plan!yes we were stressed..phew glad that i was finally over today!

we had decided to do on population but it took us a while to agree on which aspect of it to tackle.finally we decided on the the introduction of population policies,using singapore as our case study. moreover we wanted to do a lesson plan for a upper sec class something that nobody else had done and we felt we could do with some challenge..we also felt that this topic had a lot of scope and there was just so much that we could have done but taking into account the perennial problem of time time management we decided to abandon ideas like a debate and all.

i started off the first part of the lesson and wan jing was supposed to conduct the second half. by this time we had all grown to accept and like two characters which surfaced during micro teaching sessions, the new zealander Ron and the fairy Pushpa!haha.not surprisingly they never failed to disappoint their fans today too!!hehe

the fairy had to comment about the procreating patterns of the malays in our country(i share the same sentiments too hehe) and that proved to the first hurdle that i had to cross as i progressed with my teaching. then i had to have the words contraceptives flashed onto the screen and our New Zealander Ron just like a typical teenage boy had to comment on it and ask what i preferred to use!!me being the person i am blurted out condoms!!oops!..nevertheless i did say it because it was in the midst of fellow classmates but i guess some of them felt that i may react the same way in class too!well relax guys i know whats permissible and not in class and i wouldn't want to end up in the principal's office explaining to her why i prefer the use of condoms would i?hehe..it was reallt thoughtful of them to voice it out though.thanks

i was glad that on the whole Dr Chang liked our lesson but it proved vital when we had the discussion about the need for a closure to a lesson.do we really need to sum up after every lesson?i personally felt that it was important for a teacher to have a closure to his/her lesson as thi would like reiterate the important concepts to students once again. hence it was really a fulfilling and valuable experience.for now i am just glad its over!!