Practice paper 7
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This document summarizes a micro-teaching experience for a practice teaching course. The student teachers designed a mini-lesson for primary school children focusing on short, engaging activities to match children's short attention spans. Their lesson included singing, dancing, flashcards, and a spelling game to teach vowels and colors. They concluded with an animal spelling painting activity. Though initially nervous, the student teachers felt the lesson went well and was a valuable experience to prepare them for teaching real children.
Practice paper 7
- 1. UNLPam – Facultad de CienciasHumanas PRÁCTICA EDUCATIVA II (Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level) Blanco Gallego, Fátima. Practice Paper 7 Micro-teaching Experience When we were designing the mini-lesson, one idea that we had in mind was the fact that children have short attention span, which means that they get bored incredibly fast. For that reason, we thought about short and easy activities. We already knew that children need to have a routine, so that is why we thought about writing the topic of the lesson "Vowels" on the whiteboard and make some flashcards related to the weather. We decided to dance and sing the song because we thought that children will love to do that. Children love running, so in the second activity we tried to combine learning and having fun. During the game, children were learning spelling of different colours and objects at the same time they were trying to win. Fortunately, we got a positive reaction from our classmates. In the third activity, we continued making focus on spelling, but this time with animals. Children love painting too, so that is why the last activity was painting. We decided to do this activity at the end because if we did it at the beginning, then, it would have been difficult to continue with the lesson. Children would probably prefer keep on painting instead of doing something else. I was very nerveous at the beginning, but then, when I started to talk, dance and sing I felt really comfortable. As the minutes passed, I became happier and more excited because our mini-lesson finished better as we have imagined. I think that this experience was a great practice before going to a real class with "real" children. Through our own experience and the comments that were provided by the teacher we know what our weak or strong points were; what we have to improve or what we do well.