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Samantha kumar has been teaching adults for 50 minutes with supervision for the first time. Kumar felt that it is time for me to apply what I have observed and identify what I need to develop in my teaching strategies and skills. Meanwhile, attending the reading meeting with other experienced teachers gave me an insight into different aspects regarding teaching reading.
Samantha kumar has been teaching adults for 50 minutes with supervision for the first time. Kumar felt that it is time for me to apply what I have observed and identify what I need to develop in my teaching strategies and skills. Meanwhile, attending the reading meeting with other experienced teachers gave me an insight into different aspects regarding teaching reading.
Samantha kumar has been teaching adults for 50 minutes with supervision for the first time. Kumar felt that it is time for me to apply what I have observed and identify what I need to develop in my teaching strategies and skills. Meanwhile, attending the reading meeting with other experienced teachers gave me an insight into different aspects regarding teaching reading.
Teaching adults was a challenge to myself because I have been used to teaching younger students. However, I have found it doable especially after my first time to teach adults for 50 minutes with supervision. Thus, nothing is impossible and trying is the challenge to decide whether to continue or apply new strategies. After doing different observations last semester, I felt that it is time for me to apply what I have observed and identify what I need to develop in my teaching strategies and skills. From my point of view, standing at the back to observe is different from standing in front of students to teach because the responsibilities have been changed. To be specific, I prepared different activities to teach level 1 foundation students and the target of the lesson was grammar and writing. After introducing the lesson and applying the activities, I have discovered my weaknesses and strengths within the lesson. As an example, I have found that I had to less the number of activities because learners needed more time to finish them. Whereas, I was able to differentiate the activities according to different interaction patterns. Besides, delivering feedback from my mentor on the lesson was fundamental as I was able to see it from a different point of view. My mentor commented that I am trying to build good rapport with learners and this is one of my top goals for this year. In addition, attending the reading meeting with other experienced teachers gave me an insight into different aspects regarding teaching reading. In fact, we have discussed the way of putting exams. For example, they discussed the type of questions, such as multiple choice or filling in the gaps. Also, they negotiated which iPad applications are appropriate for the different activities as they agreed on using
HCT/FWC
Mentor: Tracy Munteanu
socrative. In fact, thinking about creating different exams enhanced
the importance of assessment in the learning and teaching process.