8th Reflection: BEST MOCK TEACHING

Hi there! I'm back again with my 8th reflection for pedagogy class. Well, as off today, each and everyone one of us in the class, all 13 of us have successfully completed our mock teaching! Oh yeaa..

I am here to pick and review the BEST MOCK TEACHING for our class. Which one will I pick? To pick one from all 12 of them is not an easy thing to do because I enjoyed their mock teaching.

Here are some of the those people's mock teaching which I enjoyed the most.

Whom will it be? Is it Jeremy's? Or Yue Ling's? Mimi's? Mogannah's? Will Vetha's mock teaching be the one? Or shall I say, Vimel's? Ashwini's? Or Priscilla's?

In my opinion, from all the mock teaching sessions I have seen and experienced myself, the ones I remembered best belong to JEREMY! For those whom I did not mentioned, do not be disheartened for I have limited choices and trust me, you guys did a great job. :)

Teacher Jemjem explaining to us of the question given

Teacher JemJem explaining about trigo using acronyms (Interesting Story)

Jeremy Lau (Trigonometry)

Reasons His Mock Teaching Is the BEST!

1. I love the smile he brings to the class first thing when he entered the class. This makes me as a student feel like the teacher is happy to teach us. He lights the class with his never-ending S.M.I.L.E!

2. Next, I like that he is able to manage the lesson well as he start the lesson. I am impressed on how he managed to hook me to the lesson by starting with a creative approach I say: STORY time. He is able to explain the complicated formulas in trigonometry in a simple way of remembering it which I think will be a great help to all the students. His confidence, clear voice projection when teaching the subject matter shows that he mastered the topic before hand.

3. Besides, he is also good in managing his students as he ensures all students are listening to his lesson by asking  us whether we understands what he taught and to repeat the formulas. He is also able to control noise in the classroom where he ensures all students focuses on the lesson for effective teaching and learning to occur.

4. In addition, I like that he uses various interesting teaching approach in his lessons.

He uses known SUPERHEROS: BATMAN & SUPERMAN to name the groups when he did an activity in the class which I think is a good approach to attract student's interest and attention.

The BEST PART of his mock teaching is when he is able to trigger my attention and interest during the exercise time. Even though it only consists of just 3 questions, remember, it's the quality that matters not the quality! The questions are in real-life experience situation and localized where we are to solve questions on MARS airplane taking off, nasi lemak and the on going trending Beauty&theBeast! (i love this show so much). All the questions are also high thinking order questions where we are to think critically and that's a good example of questions that will be asked in PT3.

To add on, he even uses different accent when explaining all 3 questions which is relates to the problem solving question which is British Accent in solving trigonometry for Beauty&the Beast, Malaysian Accent in MARS airplane and Indian Accent for nasi lemak question making the class lively and causing lighthearted laughter and amusement.

5.The content lesson is also sufficient where I think he provides good explanation and relevant examples during the whole lesson. He repeatedly emphasize on the acronyms

Can Anyone Help?               Cos=Adjacent/Hypotenuse

Sell Our House                     Sin=Opposite/Hypotenuse

Try Once Again                    Tan=Opposite/Again

again, and again and again during the whole lesson until I can still now remember it till today! (passed 1 week already. Look at the effect)

6. As a perfect addition, I think his PowerPoint Presentation Slides are the best! His slides are simple ,nice and presented so well. The font he used is large enough to be clearly seen with animation that matches the lesson. Images used are also clear from my view and are attractive as he includes real life images to make the presentation interesting.

7. Furthermore, he also displays good personality as a teacher. He shows good attitude during the lesson and talk politely in the class. Despite us asking him some nonsensical questions in class (to irritate him), he answers all our questions politely. He also shows good values as he praise the students for being able to questions given.

8. Last but not least, the flow of the lesson is smooth and everything went in order I say. Even though he did not really control us well during group activity and did over take some time, his teaching approach and activities did achieve the learning objective which I think is good.

Guess that's all from me for now!

P/s: To all my classmates friends, do view the next blog because I had review all of your mock teachings there. Wanted to review it here but the blog post is too long already.

Sending virtual hugs to you friends,